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vishwajeet_hol
Expert
10 years ago

Oauth 2.0 : facing issue to get authorization code

Hi,   I am trying to implement Oauth 2.0 authorization. I am not familier with it. I have referred below link on lithosphere : http://community.lithium.com/t5/Community-API-v2/OAuth-2-0-authoriza...
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fuenteso
Leader

Hi rajpi,

 

Not exactly. I don't remember the details, but I think I was trying to get the token to do some editing actions on community, but I was using a component and I belive that was the issue. I was told the call has to come from a back-end evironment (can't use an endpoint either).

 

So I ended up building the component in a way where I have to manually log in to the community before using it.

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rajpi
Adept
8 years ago

Hi fuenteso

 

I got the Oauth issue resolved, error was with appropriate permissions on the account and also some extra characters that went in the client id. Here is how I solved this issue, this may be useful to someone.

 

  1. Log into community and then run the following call in your browser (be sure to add the URL encoded client ID and you can leave the redirect uri as is):
  2. Get Authorization Code:
    GET
    https://<communityname_withouthttps>/auth/oauth2/authorize?client_id=<urlencodedclient_id>&response_type=code&redirect_uri=<exact_callbackuri_with_https_nothingextra>
  3. You should receive an authorization code that can be leveraged to obtain the access & refresh tokens
  4. https://api.lithium.com/auth/v1/accessToken
    Header:
    Content-Type : application/json
    client_id : <client_id_without_encoding>  Body ==> JSON(application/json)
    {
    "client_id":"<client_id>",
    "client_secret":"<client_secret>",
    "grant_type":"authorization_code",
    "redirect_uri":"<redirect_url>",
    "code":"<AuthCode>"
    }

Thanks

Raj