Plugin for the Credentials framework that authenticates using Facebook.
Plugin for the Kitura-Credentials framework that authenticates using the Facebook web login with OAuth and a Facebook OAuth token that was acquired by a mobile app or other client of the Kitura based backend.
The latest version of Kitura-CredentialsFacebook requires Swift 4.0 or newer. You can download this version of the Swift binaries by following this link. Compatibility with other Swift versions is not guaranteed.
Add the Kitura-CredentialsFacebook
and Credentials
packages to the dependencies within your application’s Package.swift
file. Substitute "x.x.x"
with the latest Kitura-CredentialsFacebook
release and the latest Kitura-Credentials
release.
.package(url: "https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-Credentials.git", from: "x.x.x")
.package(url: "https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-CredentialsFacebook.git", from: "x.x.x")
Add CredentialsFacebook
and Credentials
to your target's dependencies:
.target(name: "example", dependencies: ["CredentialsFacebook", "Credentials"]),
import Credentials
import CredentialsFacebook
A complete sample can be found in Kitura-Sample.
First set up the session:
import KituraSession
router.all(middleware: Session(secret: "Very very secret..."))
Create an instance of CredentialsFacebook
plugin and register it with the Credentials
framework:
import Credentials
import CredentialsFacebook
let credentials = Credentials()
let fbCredentials = CredentialsFacebook(clientId: fbClientId,
clientSecret: fbClientSecret,
callbackUrl: serverUrl + "/login/facebook/callback",
options: options)
credentials.register(fbCredentials)
Where:
- fbClientId is the App ID of your app in the Facebook Developer dashboard
- fbClientSecret is the App Secret of your app in the Facebook Developer dashboard
- options is an optional dictionary ([String:Any]) of Facebook authentication options whose keys are listed in
CredentialsFacebookOptions
Note: The callbackUrl parameter above is used to tell the Facebook web login page where the user's browser should be redirected when the login is successful. It should be a URL handled by the server you are writing. Specify where to redirect non-authenticated requests:
credentials.options["failureRedirect"] = "/login/facebook"
Connect credentials
middleware to requests to /private
:
router.all("/private", middleware: credentials)
router.get("/private/data", handler:
{ request, response, next in
...
next()
})
And call authenticate
to login with Facebook and to handle the redirect (callback) from the Facebook login web page after a successful login:
router.get("/login/facebook",
handler: credentials.authenticate(fbCredentials.name))
router.get("/login/facebook/callback",
handler: credentials.authenticate(fbCredentials.name))
This example shows how to use CredentialsFacebookToken
plugin to authenticate post requests, it shows both the server side and the client side of the request involved.
First create an instance of Credentials
and an instance of CredentialsFacebookToken
plugin:
import Credentials
import CredentialsFacebook
let credentials = Credentials()
let fbCredentials = CredentialsFacebookToken(options: options)
Where:
- options is an optional dictionary ([String:Any]) of Facebook authentication options whose keys are listed in
CredentialsFacebookOptions
.
Now register the plugin:
credentials.register(fbCredentials)
Connect credentials
middleware to post requests:
router.post("/collection/:new", middleware: credentials)
If the authentication is successful, request.userProfile
will contain user profile information received from Facebook:
router.post("/collection/:new") {request, response, next in
...
let profile = request.userProfile
let userId = profile.id
let userName = profile.displayName
...
next()
}
The client needs to put Facebook access token in request's access_token
HTTP header field, and "FacebookToken" in X-token-type
field:
let urlRequest = NSMutableURLRequest(URL: NSURL(string: "http://\(serverUrl)/collection/\(name)"))
urlRequest.HTTPMethod = "POST"
urlRequest.HTTPBody = ...
urlRequest.addValue(FBSDKAccessToken.currentAccessToken().tokenString, forHTTPHeaderField: "access_token")
urlRequest.addValue("FacebookToken", forHTTPHeaderField: "X-token-type")
Alamofire.request(urlRequest).responseJSON {response in
...
}
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This library is licensed under Apache 2.0. Full license text is available in LICENSE.