Comments on: High level AS3/Flex library for OAuth with Twitter from AIR

By: Rajesh Sharma

Rajesh Sharma — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 10:05:47 +0000

Hey,
Thanks for this.
I am using same library for Twitter and stuck with scope param which is not there in twitter API. Can you please let me know what needs to pass for Twitter.

Thanks in advance.

By: Miller Gonzalez

Miller Gonzalez — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:07:40 +0000

Hi, nice post

For SWF application, how you can solve the sandbox problem?

By: Ken Winter

Ken Winter — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:13:43 +0000

Sönke, Thanks for the great library! I was able to use it successfully in an AIR app to authenticate to Twitter. But have you ever tried authenticating to any Google Data APIs using your library? The only changes to authenticate to Google seem to be the addition of a couple of parameters - scope, which indicates which set of apis (Calendar, Gmail, etc) you want to use, and oauth_callback - which Twitter doesn't appear to need, but Google seems to need it set either as the URL of a web app, or the string "oob" to indicate PIN-entry authentication. (see http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth.html and http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth_ref.html for details on the Google implementation) It seems like it should be very straightforward to authenticate to Google, but I've been banging my head against a wall! According to all their docs, I'm doing everything right. And I've compared against requests made with their OAuth Playground (http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/index.php) - where you can go through the authentication process and see all requests, headers, strings to be signed, etc. My requests and responses as far as I can tell look just like theirs! Same string to be signed, params in the same order, it all looks good. But when I get to the final step to get an access token, I always receive a response of 400 - "The token is invalid" - no parameter errors, or signature errors, just this cryptic error. I don't know if Google sees something strange in requests coming from an AIR app, or there are some undocumented differences Google requires for installed apps - I'm stumped. It would obviously be fantastic to build AIR apps that interact with the Google Data APIs, but I'm out of ideas. Do you have any insights or experience here? Cheers...

By: Sönke

Sönke — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:23:56 +0000

True, you would have to replace UIDUtil with your own implementation.

By: PEZ

PEZ — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 20:46:38 +0000

This is very good but it seems you can not use this library for an AS3 only project. As it is built on top of the Oauth-as3 lib which in turn relies on some Flex packages. Specifically “mx.utils.UIDUtil“. If your trying to use in an Actionscript only project there seems to be an error that can only be resolved by turning your AS3 project into a Flex Project.

By: _mark

_mark — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:44:36 +0000

i know this is specifically to use oauth api to twitter .. but i’m assuming i can mod it to use it with any api? need multiple api oauth to as3 communications without problems. suggestions? thanks!

By: Facebook, the Open Graph and OAuth 2.0 | zedia flash blog

Facebook, the Open Graph and OAuth 2.0 | zedia flash blog — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 14:14:16 +0000

[...] 3 simply called oauth-as3. There is not much documentation on how to use it but if found this pretty good example for using it in conjunction with AIR. The user flow is a bit different when you are integrating OAuth in a website so you have to tweak [...]

By: chris

chris — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:41:09 +0000

Thanks, I’ll give it a look.

By: Sönke

Sönke — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 07:25:30 +0000

When you have set consumer key and secret it should work fine.
You may wanna try my newer example for Twitter here: http://soenkerohde.com/2010/01/twitter-as3-oauth-lib-with-flex-4-example/

By: chris

chris — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:48:08 +0000

I should add that I am doing this in AIR and have the proper consumer secret and key.