angular-oauth1-client

An OAuth1.0a client for AngularJS 1 and Cordova/Ionic

Getting Started

Install this plugin with the dependencies

$ bower install angular-oauth1-client

Make sure to include these in your index.html:

• CryptoJS/Hmac-Sha1 and Base64 libraries
• Angular Local Storage
• angular-oauth1-client (this repository)

For example, index.html:

<script src="lib/cryptojslib/rollups/hmac-sha1.js"></script>
<script src="lib/cryptojslib/components/enc-base64-min.js"></script>
<script src="lib/angular-local-storage/dist/angular-local-storage.min.js"></script>
<script src="lib/angular-oauth1-client/dist/angular-oauth1-client.min.js"></script>

Make sure to install the cordova-plugin-inappbrowser plugin:

$ ionic plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

or

$ cordova plugin add cordova-plugin-inappbrowser

Usage

First you need to configure oauth1Client with your API data. Include oauth1Client as a dependency in your app definition:

angular.module('myModule', [
    'oauth1Client'
])

.config(function(oauth1ClientProvider) {
    oauth1ClientProvider.config({
        consumerKey: '~~YOUR~CONSUMER~KEY~~',
        consumerSecret: '~~YOUR~CONSUMER~SECRET~~',
        requestEndpoint: 'http://localhost/wordpress/oauth1/request',
        authorizeEndpoint: 'http://localhostwordpress/oauth1/authorize',
        accessEndpoint: 'http://localhost/wordpress/oauth1/access',
        oauthCallback: 'http://www.google.com'
    });
})

Then start the authorization flow in your controller. This will open up the InAppBrowser and ask the user to approve your app's access:

var authorizationProcess = oauth1Client.authorize();

After authorization, you are returned a wrapper around angular's $http that takes the same parameters and configs, but adds the OAuth authorization information to it:

authorizationProcess.then(function(authorizedHttp) {
    authorizedHttp({
        method: "POST",
        url: "http://localhost/wordpress/wp-json/users",
        data: {
            username: "User 2",
            name: "User 2",
            password: "User 2's Password",
            email: "[email protected]"
        }
    })
    .then(function(response) {
        alert("New user created!");
    }, function(response) {
        alert("Error! " + response.data);
    });
    authorizedHttp({
        method: "GET",
        url: "http://localhost/wordpress/wp-json/users/me"
    })
    .then(function(response) {
        alert("Success! " + JSON.stringify(response));
    },
    function(response) {
        alert("Error! " + JSON.stringify(response));
    });
});

Wordpress API Setup

If you are using the Wordpress WP-API you will need to set up the OAuth 1.0a server on your instance. See setup instructions at the WP REST API - OAuth 1.0a Server page.

Additional Information

Some things to note:

1. WP-API Version - This plugin was originally built to use the Wordpress JSON API (WP-API) version 1. It has not been tested with version 2.
2. CORS support - You will most likely need to enable CORS support on your Wordpress API. For development, a library by thenbrent will provide CORS support. As mentioned there, you will probably want to harden your server more in production.
3. deviceready event - This plugin makes use of the Cordova InAppBrowser plugin. Cordova plugins only work when the deviceready event fires. See the plugin README for more details.
4. Callback url - You may specify any callback url you like, as long as it actually resolves to a real website. There have been some issues with, for example, putting http://localhost when you aren't running anything on localhost or it isn't accessible from the iOS simulator.