passport-icynet

Passport strategy for authentication with Icy Network through the OAuth 2.0 API.

Usage

npm install passport-icynet --save

Configure Strategy

The Icy Network authentication strategy authenticates users via a Icy Network user account and OAuth 2.0 token(s). A Icy Network API client ID, secret and redirect URL must be supplied when using this strategy. The strategy also requires a verify callback, which receives the access token and an optional refresh token, as well as a profile which contains the authenticated Icy Network user's profile. The verify callback must also call cb providing a user to complete the authentication.

var IcyNetworkStrategy = require('passport-icynet').Strategy;

var scopes = ['image', 'email'];

passport.use(new IcyNetworkStrategy({
    clientID: 'id',
    clientSecret: 'secret',
    callbackURL: 'callbackURL',
    scope: scopes
},
function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, cb) {
    User.findOrCreate({ icynetId: profile.id }, function(err, user) {
        return cb(err, user);
    });
}));

Authentication Requests

Use passport.authenticate(), and specify the 'icynet' strategy to authenticate requests.

For example, as a route middleware in an Express app:

app.get('/auth/icynet', passport.authenticate('icynet'));
app.get('/auth/icynet/callback', passport.authenticate('icynet', {
    failureRedirect: '/'
}), function(req, res) {
    res.redirect('/secretstuff') // Successful auth
});

Refresh Token Usage

In some use cases where the profile may be fetched more than once or you want to keep the user authenticated, refresh tokens may wish to be used. A package such as passport-oauth2-refresh can assist in doing this.

Example:

npm install passport-oauth2-refresh --save

var IcyNetworkStrategy = require('passport-icynet').Strategy
  , refresh = require('passport-oauth2-refresh');

var icynetStrat = new IcyNetworkStrategy({
    clientID: 'id',
    clientSecret: 'secret',
    callbackURL: 'callbackURL'
},
function(accessToken, refreshToken, profile, cb) {
    profile.refreshToken = refreshToken; // store this for later refreshes
    User.findOrCreate({ icynetId: profile.id }, function(err, user) {
        if (err)
            return done(err);

        return cb(err, user);
    });
});

passport.use(icynetStrat);
refresh.use(icynetStrat);

... then if we require refreshing when fetching an update or something ...

refresh.requestNewAccessToken('icynet', profile.refreshToken, function(err, accessToken, refreshToken) {
    if (err)
        throw; // boys, we have an error here.
    
    profile.accessToken = accessToken; // store this new one for our new requests!
});

Examples

An Express server example can be found in the /example directory. Be sure to npm install in that directory to get the dependencies.

Credits

• Jared Hanson - used passport-github to understand passport more and kind of as a base.