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Posted to user@couchdb.apache.org by Martin Higham <ma...@ocasta.co.uk> on 2012/03/21 21:48:41 UTC
New version of the Facebook auth plugin
Our CouchDB Facebook authentication plugin has been available for a while
during this time a number of shortcomings and problems have been
identified. We have now rewritten this plugin in a more generic manner so
that we can easily add other external OAuth authentication services such as
Twitter. Unfortunately the changes we have made to how we store the data in
the _user database means that it is not compatible with the existing
Facebook plugin so we have called this version the XO_Auth plugin (eXternal
OAuth).
Some of the features of the new version:
- it is easy to have a single _user record that contains, OAuth tokens, a
username/password and also to be used to let the user authenticate with
Facebook
- when creating a document in the _user doc after Facebook authentication
the assigned username is based n the users's Facebook name
- Access token storage is optional
- support for the deprecation of the Facebook offline access and support
for extending token life
- simpler configuration by making the first call direct to Facebook
- clear separation of the Facebook support and generic XO_Auth code
It can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/ocastalabs/CouchDB-XO_Auth
This version has been tested with CouchDB 1.2 only
Re: New version of the Facebook auth plugin
Posted by Gert Cuykens <ge...@gmail.com>.
pleas merge browser id into CouchDB-XO_Auth so it does not mess up
_user docs :)
beta upgrade request for
http://gert.iriscouch.com/
http://wouter.iriscouch.com/
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 11:43 AM, Jason Smith <jh...@iriscouch.com> wrote:
> Martin, thank you very much for this! I made some minor tweaks (check
> your GitHub inbox), and I have builds working on Iris Couch.
>
> If anybody wants to use Ocasta Labs' excellent Facebook plugin, let me
> know and I'll bump you to the beta build on iriscouch.com.
>
> On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Martin Higham <ma...@ocasta.co.uk> wrote:
>> Our CouchDB Facebook authentication plugin has been available for a while
>> during this time a number of shortcomings and problems have been
>> identified. We have now rewritten this plugin in a more generic manner so
>> that we can easily add other external OAuth authentication services such as
>> Twitter. Unfortunately the changes we have made to how we store the data in
>> the _user database means that it is not compatible with the existing
>> Facebook plugin so we have called this version the XO_Auth plugin (eXternal
>> OAuth).
>>
>> Some of the features of the new version:
>>
>> - it is easy to have a single _user record that contains, OAuth tokens, a
>> username/password and also to be used to let the user authenticate with
>> Facebook
>>
>> - when creating a document in the _user doc after Facebook authentication
>> the assigned username is based n the users's Facebook name
>>
>> - Access token storage is optional
>>
>> - support for the deprecation of the Facebook offline access and support
>> for extending token life
>>
>> - simpler configuration by making the first call direct to Facebook
>>
>> - clear separation of the Facebook support and generic XO_Auth code
>>
>> It can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/ocastalabs/CouchDB-XO_Auth
>>
>> This version has been tested with CouchDB 1.2 only
>
>
>
> --
> Iris Couch
Re: New version of the Facebook auth plugin
Posted by Jason Smith <jh...@iriscouch.com>.
Martin, thank you very much for this! I made some minor tweaks (check
your GitHub inbox), and I have builds working on Iris Couch.
If anybody wants to use Ocasta Labs' excellent Facebook plugin, let me
know and I'll bump you to the beta build on iriscouch.com.
On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 8:48 PM, Martin Higham <ma...@ocasta.co.uk> wrote:
> Our CouchDB Facebook authentication plugin has been available for a while
> during this time a number of shortcomings and problems have been
> identified. We have now rewritten this plugin in a more generic manner so
> that we can easily add other external OAuth authentication services such as
> Twitter. Unfortunately the changes we have made to how we store the data in
> the _user database means that it is not compatible with the existing
> Facebook plugin so we have called this version the XO_Auth plugin (eXternal
> OAuth).
>
> Some of the features of the new version:
>
> - it is easy to have a single _user record that contains, OAuth tokens, a
> username/password and also to be used to let the user authenticate with
> Facebook
>
> - when creating a document in the _user doc after Facebook authentication
> the assigned username is based n the users's Facebook name
>
> - Access token storage is optional
>
> - support for the deprecation of the Facebook offline access and support
> for extending token life
>
> - simpler configuration by making the first call direct to Facebook
>
> - clear separation of the Facebook support and generic XO_Auth code
>
> It can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/ocastalabs/CouchDB-XO_Auth
>
> This version has been tested with CouchDB 1.2 only
--
Iris Couch
Re: New version of the Facebook auth plugin
Posted by Alexander Gabriel <al...@barbalex.ch>.
thanks a lot!
Alex
2012/3/21 Martin Higham <ma...@ocasta.co.uk>
> Our CouchDB Facebook authentication plugin has been available for a while
> during this time a number of shortcomings and problems have been
> identified. We have now rewritten this plugin in a more generic manner so
> that we can easily add other external OAuth authentication services such as
> Twitter. Unfortunately the changes we have made to how we store the data in
> the _user database means that it is not compatible with the existing
> Facebook plugin so we have called this version the XO_Auth plugin (eXternal
> OAuth).
>
> Some of the features of the new version:
>
> - it is easy to have a single _user record that contains, OAuth tokens, a
> username/password and also to be used to let the user authenticate with
> Facebook
>
> - when creating a document in the _user doc after Facebook authentication
> the assigned username is based n the users's Facebook name
>
> - Access token storage is optional
>
> - support for the deprecation of the Facebook offline access and support
> for extending token life
>
> - simpler configuration by making the first call direct to Facebook
>
> - clear separation of the Facebook support and generic XO_Auth code
>
> It can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/ocastalabs/CouchDB-XO_Auth
>
> This version has been tested with CouchDB 1.2 only
>