OAuth 2.0

OAuth 2 with Redis Implementation - grant_type: password

In this example I will be using oauth2 in rest api with redis database

**Important:** You will need to install redis database on your machine, Download it from [here](https://redis.io/download) for linux users and from [here](https://github.com/ServiceStack/redis-windows) to install windows version, and we will be using redis manager desktop app, install it from [here](https://redisdesktop.com/download).

Now we have to set our node.js server to use redis database.

• Creating Server file: app.js

   var express = require('express'),
  bodyParser = require('body-parser'),
  oauthserver = require('oauth2-server'); // Would be: 'oauth2-server'

var app = express();

app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

app.use(bodyParser.json());

app.oauth = oauthserver({
  model: require('./routes/Oauth2/model'),
  grants: ['password', 'refresh_token'],
  debug: true
});

// Handle token grant requests
app.all('/oauth/token', app.oauth.grant());

app.get('/secret', app.oauth.authorise(), function (req, res) {
  // Will require a valid access_token
  res.send('Secret area');
});

app.get('/public', function (req, res) {
  // Does not require an access_token
  res.send('Public area');
});

// Error handling
app.use(app.oauth.errorHandler());

app.listen(3000);

• Create Oauth2 model in routes/Oauth2/model.js

var model = module.exports,
  util = require('util'),
  redis = require('redis');

var db = redis.createClient();

var keys = {
  token: 'tokens:%s',
  client: 'clients:%s',
  refreshToken: 'refresh_tokens:%s',
  grantTypes: 'clients:%s:grant_types',
  user: 'users:%s'
};

model.getAccessToken = function (bearerToken, callback) {
  db.hgetall(util.format(keys.token, bearerToken), function (err, token) {
    if (err) return callback(err);

    if (!token) return callback();

    callback(null, {
      accessToken: token.accessToken,
      clientId: token.clientId,
      expires: token.expires ? new Date(token.expires) : null,
      userId: token.userId
    });
  });
};

model.getClient = function (clientId, clientSecret, callback) {
  db.hgetall(util.format(keys.client, clientId), function (err, client) {
    if (err) return callback(err);

    if (!client || client.clientSecret !== clientSecret) return callback();

    callback(null, {
      clientId: client.clientId,
      clientSecret: client.clientSecret
    });
  });
};

model.getRefreshToken = function (bearerToken, callback) {
  db.hgetall(util.format(keys.refreshToken, bearerToken), function (err, token) {
    if (err) return callback(err);

    if (!token) return callback();

    callback(null, {
      refreshToken: token.accessToken,
      clientId: token.clientId,
      expires: token.expires ? new Date(token.expires) : null,
      userId: token.userId
    });
  });
};

model.grantTypeAllowed = function (clientId, grantType, callback) {
  db.sismember(util.format(keys.grantTypes, clientId), grantType, callback);
};

model.saveAccessToken = function (accessToken, clientId, expires, user, callback) {
  db.hmset(util.format(keys.token, accessToken), {
    accessToken: accessToken,
    clientId: clientId,
    expires: expires ? expires.toISOString() : null,
    userId: user.id
  }, callback);
};

model.saveRefreshToken = function (refreshToken, clientId, expires, user, callback) {
  db.hmset(util.format(keys.refreshToken, refreshToken), {
    refreshToken: refreshToken,
    clientId: clientId,
    expires: expires ? expires.toISOString() : null,
    userId: user.id
  }, callback);
};

model.getUser = function (username, password, callback) {
  db.hgetall(util.format(keys.user, username), function (err, user) {
    if (err) return callback(err);

    if (!user || password !== user.password) return callback();

    callback(null, {
      id: username
    });
  });
};

You only need to install redis on your machine and run the following node file

 #! /usr/bin/env node

var db = require('redis').createClient();

db.multi()
  .hmset('users:username', {
    id: 'username',
    username: 'username',
    password: 'password'
  })
  .hmset('clients:client', {
    clientId: 'client',
    clientSecret: 'secret'
  })//clientId + clientSecret to base 64 will generate Y2xpZW50OnNlY3JldA==
  .sadd('clients:client:grant_types', [
    'password',
    'refresh_token'
  ])
  .exec(function (errs) {
    if (errs) {
      console.error(errs[0].message);
      return process.exit(1);
    }

    console.log('Client and user added successfully');
    process.exit();
  });

Note: This file will set credentials for your frontend to request token So your request from

Sample redis database after calling the above file:

Request will be as follows:

Sample Call to api

Header:

authorization: Basic followed by the password set when you first setup redis:

a. clientId + secretId to base64

Data form:

username: user that request token

password: user password

grant_type: depends on what options do you want, I choose passwod which takes only username and password to be created in redis, Data on redis will be as below:

{
  "access_token":"1d3fe602da12a086ecb2b996fd7b7ae874120c4f",
  "token_type":"bearer", // Will be used to access api + access+token e.g. bearer 1d3fe602da12a086ecb2b996fd7b7ae874120c4f
  "expires_in":3600,
  "refresh_token":"b6ad56e5c9aba63c85d7e21b1514680bbf711450"
}

username: user that request token

grant_type: depends on what options do you want, I choose passwod which takes only username and password to be created in redis, Data on redis will be as below:

So We need to call our api and grab some secured data with our access token we have just created, see below:

when token expires api will throw an error that the token expires and you cannot have access to any of the api calls, see image below :

Lets see what to do if the token expires, Let me first explain it to you, if access token expires a refresh_token exists in redis that reference the expired access_token So what we need is to call oauth/token again with the refresh_token grant_type and set the authorization to the Basic clientId:clientsecret ( to base 64 ! ) and finally send the refresh_token, this will generate a new access_token with a new expiry data.

The following picture shows how to get a new access token:

Hope to Help!