Ring middleware that acts as a OAuth 2.0 client. This is used for authenticating and integrating with third party website, like Twitter, Facebook and GitHub.
To install, add the following to your project :dependencies:
[ring-oauth2 "0.2.0"]
The middleware function to use is ring.middleware.oauth2/wrap-oauth2.
This takes a Ring handler, and a map of profiles as arguments. Each
profile has a key to identify it, and a map of options that define how
to authorize against a third-party service.
Here's an example that provides authentication with GitHub:
(require '[ring.middleware.oauth2 :refer [wrap-oauth2]])
(def handler
(wrap-oauth2
routes
{:github
{:authorize-uri "https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize"
:access-token-uri "https://github.com/login/oauth/access_token"
:client-id "abcabcabc"
:client-secret "xyzxyzxyzxyzxyz"
:scopes ["user:email"]
:launch-uri "/oauth2/github"
:redirect-uri "/oauth2/github/callback"
:landing-uri "/"}}))The profile has a lot of options, and all have a necessary function. Let's go through them one by one.
The first two keys are the authorize and access token URIs:
:authorize-uri:access-token-uri
These are URLs provided by the third-party website. If you look at the OAuth documentation for the site you're authenticating against, it should tell you which URLs to use.
Next is the client ID and secret:
:client-id:client-secret
When you register your application with the third-party website, these two values should be provided to you. Note that these should not be kept in source control, especially the client secret!
Optionally you can define the scope or scopes of the access you want:
:scopes
These are used to ask the third-party website to provide access to
certain information. In the previous example, we set the scopes to
["user:email"]; in other words, we want to be able to access the
user's email address. Scopes are a vector of either strings or
keywords, and are specific to the website you're authenticating
against.
The next URIs are internal to your application:
:launch-uri:redirect-uri:landing-uri
The launch URI kicks off the authorization process. Your log-in link should point to this address, and it should be unique per profile.
The redirect URI provides the internal callback. It can be any
relative URI as long as it is unique. It can also be an absolute URI like
https://loadbalanced-url.com/oauth2/github/callback
The landing URI is where the middleware redirects the user when the
authentication process is complete. This could just be back to the
index page, or it could be to the user's account page. Or you can use
the optional :redirect-handler key, which expects a Ring handler
function. When :redirect-handler is configured, :landing-uri will
be ignored.
:basic-auth?
This is an optional parameter, which defaults to false.
If set to true, it includes the client-id and secret as a header
Authorization: Basic base64(id:secret) as recommended by the specification.
Please note, you should enable cookies to be sent with cross-site requests, in order to make the callback request handling work correctly, eg:
(wrap-defaults handler (-> site-defaults (assoc-in [:session :cookie-attrs :same-site] :lax)))Also, you must make sure that ring.middleware.params/wrap-params is
enabled and runs before this middleware, as this library depends on the
:query-params key to be present in the request.
Once the middleware is set up, navigating to the :launch-uri will
kick off the authorization process. If it succeeds, then the user will
be directed to the :landing-uri. Once the user is authenticated, a
new key is added to every request:
:oauth2/access-tokens
This key contains a map that connects the profile keyword to it's
corresponding access token. Using the earlier example of :github
profile, the way you'd access the token would be as follows:
(-> request :oauth2/access-tokens :github)The handler associated with the landing route can check for this token and complete authentication of the user.
The following image is a workflow diagram that describes the OAuth2 authorization process for Ring-OAuth2. It should give you an overview of how all the different URIs interact.
Please see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Copyright © 2021 James Reeves
Released under the MIT License.