Socialauth API 4.3 with Google Oauth 2.0

Question

Does anyone know how to use Brickred Socialauth API 4.3 in servlets with Google Oauth 2.0? Where could I get the *consumer_secret* and *consumer_key*?

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Answer 1

The instructions available on the BrickRed wiki no longer work as you have already found out. The following should work assuming:

A. You are using socialauth 4.2+. I tested these with socialauth 4.4.
B. You are trying to configure your own domain and not using the brickred domain for testing.
C. You are creating a web application, else adjust accordingly

1. First register your application on Google Cloud console:
   a. Go to https://cloud.google.com/console/project
   b. Login
   c. Create a new project
   d. APIs & Auth > Credentials
   e. Create New Client ID ( Application Type: Web Application, Authorized redirect URL: http://YOUR_HOST_NAME/socialauth.html)
   
2. Modify brickred properties.xml
   Replace
   <prop key="www.google.com.consumer_key">opensource.brickred.com</prop>
<prop key="www.google.com.consumer_secret">YC06FqhmCLWvtBg/O4W/aJfj</prop>
   
   with
   
   <prop key="googleapis.com.consumer_key">CLIENT ID created in Step 1.e above</prop>
<prop key="googleapis.com.consumer_secret">Client Secret created in Step 1.e above </prop>

If you are not using Spring, modify oauth_consumer.properties

Modify the link in your application where the user clicks on to start the contacts import process:
change
?id=google

to

?id=googleplus

Hope this helps

Answer 2

You can register your app to use Google OAuth at:

https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2Login#registeringyourapp

from where you get your "secret / key".

I have successfully implemented SocialAuth with Facebook and it worked properly. I still don't have any experience implementing it with google OAuth2 but it should work. Their CDI example does authenticate with Google, I am just not sure if using Oauth1 or Oauth2.

Regards.

Answer 3

For people who cannot find the consumer_secret, I found a solution:

socialauth is using web flow. So if you are socialauth-android you need to create web application instead of installed application.

So even for an Android App, you still need create a Client ID for web project. The secret will be displayed in page directly!