rukinyc/ac3.2-oauth2

Handling APIs that Require OAuth2

AC3.2-OAuth2

Handling APIs that Require OAuth2

Reading:

1. An Introduction to OAuth2 - Digital Ocean

• Kind of lengthy, but very well explained and diagrammed

2. Authentication versus Authorization
3. iOS AppDelegate Lifecycle - coursetro via Youtube
4. What is an app delegate in iOS? - Learn App Development via Youtube

Reference:

1. Twitter API Documentation
2. Instagram API Documentation - Authentication
3. Github API Documentation - OAuth

Optional:

1. User Authentication With OAuth 2.0 - OAuth.net
2. App Lifecycle - Apple

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Lesson Objectives

• Review remaining exercises for PUT/DELETE from tuesday
• Introduce the concept of an OAuth flow
• Briefly go over AppDelegate functions
• Briefly go over app lifecycle
• Implement an OAuth flow from beginning to end using an "Implicit Flow"
• Time permitting, start making calls to the GithubAPI to star/unstar repos

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Lesson Roadmap

1. Creating GithubOAuthManager
2. Making a GET request to Github's authorization server
3. Write code to accept a valid response from Github
4. Make a POST request to Github's access token server
5. Inspect response from Github

• Peek at what exactly is in the URLResponse
• Parse Data into String

6. Change Accept header in POST request to application/json

• Parse Data using JSONSerialization

7. Creating GithubRequestManager
8. TBD

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Exercises

TBD based on day's progress