Here is an article on how to get a Google Account user's email during the OAuth process that you can use for display purpose.
http://sites.google.com/site/oauthgoog/Home/emaildisplayscope p.s. Just don't use it for federated login :-) On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:45 AM, hank williams <[email protected]> wrote: > I am an Oauth Noob, and so I have a basic question. > > My company is intending to support Twitter, Google apps, and Yahoo apps > access via Oauth. > > I know that part of the purpose of Oauth is to prevent the application > developer from seeing the account name/password. But I am wondering if it is > indeed the goal to keep the account name from the application developer. We > would like to support a users ability to access multiple accounts on the > same service. For example through our service the user could access two > google accounts because they have two separate gmail accounts. For a proper > user interface we need to be able to request, from within a given API, a > call of the type "what is the username for this account". This will allow us > to provide a UI that has choices for which account the user wants to be able > to use. > > I have just been looking at the twitter API and I do not see a "what is the > username for this account" call, and so I thought I would ask here if I am > somehow barking up the wrong philosophical tree, and if not if anyone knows > how to make such calls for twitter, yahoo and google. > > Thanks, > Hank. > > -- > blog: whydoeseverythingsuck.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "OAuth" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] <oauth%[email protected]>. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OAuth" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oauth?hl=en.
