Many APIs have an endpoint solely for getting information about the
authenticated user. I think Twitter's is account/verify_credentials...
Leah
On May 16, 2010, at 5:36 PM, "Richer, Justin P." <[email protected]>
wrote:
Nothing exists for this specifically in OAuth, partially because not
all APIs have a notion of a "username". However, I think that it
makes sense to have a notion of per-instance metadata attached to a
token. For example, if a user has two instances of a thick client,
both of those will have tokens in the server end, but since they'll
both have the same client ID there's no way to tell them apart.
Username could be one of these kinds of per-instance meta ields. I
floated this idea on the list a while back and never got traction on
it.
-- justin
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf Of
hank williams [[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2010 1:45 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [oauth] Getting the user name
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.
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