I am using Omniauth for Facebook connect in a Rails app. Facebook auth connects properly, but the "state" param - through which I should be able to pass data to retrieve on callback - is returning a string I can't decipher.
For example, authorizing through "/auth/facebook?display=popup&state=19422"
ends up returning a state of "ecae4f444fb248944083db0623c9a86f3f75dff36006be7e"
Any idea why this is happening?
The state param is not supposed to be used to pass data around. That param is only to be used to stop CSRF vulnerabilities. That randomly generated string is being used in background to prevent those types of attacks.
You can pass your custom data by simply using any other param. OmniAuth is already kind enough to persist in the session any extra params you may send in your request.
So instead of passing data with
request_url?state=data
and getting it with
data = params[:state]
You can pass it with
request_url?whatever=data
and get it with
data = request.env['omniauth.params']['whatever']
And you can even omit the request and get the data with:
data = env['omniauth.params']['whatever']
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I am currently creating an MVC application that is currently getting a value from a post from a webhook. I think that the problem is that the application is getting the value from the POST verb but then it is not displaying it because the Get verb is being used to display the View so both Verbs are counter acting each other.
The webhook will fire A Json payload to my application successfully because I have code in it that will send the Json payload in a variable via email to my email account.
Dim body = issue.issue.key
mail.Body = body
That is in a try catch block because in order for it to have a value it must have a value in it and the application will perform the GET first, so there is a null value in the body variable, then it does the POST to get the value but it will not display the value, refreshing will just perform the GET preventing it from being displayed. How can I perform both actions at the same time so I can display a value in a ViewBag for example.
ViewBag.response = status + key
This is the type of structure that I would like to implement to try and fix the error but I do not know how to complete all of the steps:
This is what I have got so far:
The POST is coming in from a webhook and I am reading it like this.
Dim reader As System.IO.StreamReader = New System.IO.StreamReader(HttpContext.Request.InputStream)
Dim rawSendGridJSON As String = reader.ReadToEnd()
Dim tempVar As Rootobject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of Rootobject)(rawSendGridJSON)
System.Diagnostics.Trace.TraceError(rawSendGridJSON)
I am then trying to store the post values in a table like this:
Public Function CallBack(tempTable as temporaryTable)
Dim tempVar As Rootobject = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject(Of Rootobject)(rawSendGridJSON)
tempVar = temporaryTable.tempVar
I then save the new items in the actual table in the database, then I try to display it in a view on another page. This is not working correctly and the problem lies with this line, as the post is not being correctly read in at the right time. (The value is processing correctly as I can use an email method to send the variables in an email back to the application but this application needs to be real-time efficient code).
Is there a better way to use this method and how can I invoke this process that I want to do properly so that I can display the correct information?
Update
To clarify, there are two posts that are happening, the first one is when the user enters in information and submits it. This is then stored in a database and send to JIRA via email. Once JIRA receives the information, it is sends a HTTP POST webhook JSON Payload back to my application with updated information. I then have deserialized the JSON Payload into a variable called issueKey.
The problem is that on the View page that the information is sent to will automatically display a null value first before the value is sent to it, I want the application to work so that it will actually display/store in a database the values from the Webhook JSON Payload but I cannot figure out how to display the values.
I have now set up a communication channel from SignalR to my MVC application, at the moment it is being received by the MVC and I have set up a SignalR chat Hub in my MVC application, but I don't know how to integrate them, how can this be done?
As I understand it, there are two flows at work here. The user posts data, which triggers an email to Jira. Then sometime later (usually quite fast, but not always) JIRA triggers a webhook in the web application with some updated information, and you want to display this updated information to the user somehow, or at least inform the user when the updated information comes back from JIRA.
I would implement a standard Post-Redirect-Get for the user initiated part (as per br4d's comment). I.e. a post to store the data in the database and send email to jira, which returns a redirect to a get which shows the data stored in the database.
Now for the other part I would use signalr to set up some sort of communications channel to the user. The webook could then send a signal (of sorts) through the communication channel to the users browser and either display the data, or trigger a refresh of the page (if you are updating the database with data from Jira).
It is unclear if you are doing straigt mvc, or some sort of SPA application, but it is not really important. The users browser has no way of knowing about the webhook (which is a part of the webapplication and unrelated to the users session), and you need some sort of communication between the webapplication and the browser, and for this signalr is very very good.
I have some data that I need to persist through multiple actions within my Grails app. Due to the nature of the data, I would prefer not to store the data in the session. Here is an example of what I would like to do.
class MyController{
def index(){
MyObject object = MyObject.new(params.first, params.second, params.third)
[gspObject:object]
}
def process(){
MyObject object = params.gspObject
//continue from here
}
}
In my GSP if I do
<g:form action="process" params="[gspObject:gspObject]">
Then I get the error
Cannot cast object 'net.package.MyObject#699c14d8' with class 'java.lang.String' to class 'net.package.MyObject'
My question is, If I want to get the object back that I sent to the gsp, how can I get that? Is there some kind of scope that I can save the object in that would be a little safer then session? Is there a way to pass the object into the page itself and pass it back in the next request?
Grails has many layers, but at the bottom you have plain old HTTP just like in any web app. It's a stateless protocol, and you send a text or binary response, and receive text or text + binary requests. But you can't expect to be able to send an arbitrary object to a web browser in HTML and receive it back again in the same state as when you sent it - where is this Java/Groovy JVM object going to be stored in the browser?
You have basically two options. One is to store it at the server, which is less work because it remains as the same object the whole time. The session is a good location because it's coupled to the user, is created on-demand and can automatically time out and be removed, etc. The other is to do what you're trying to do - send it to the client and receive it back - but you are going to have to serialize it from an object (which could be a complex object containing arbitrarily many other objects) and deserialize it from the format you used on the client back into Java/Groovy objects.
JSON is a good option for serialization/marshalling. You could store the stringified object in a hidden form element if your page uses a form, or in a querystring arg if you click a link from this page to the next in the workflow. Don't send all of the object's data though, only what you need to rebuild it. Anything that's available in the database should be referenced by id and reloaded.
Something like
[gspObject: object as JSON]
or
[gspObject: [first: object.first, first: object.firstsecond, ...] as JSON]
will get it in the correct format for sending, and then you can parse the JSON from the request to reinstantiate the instance.
According to the document on command objects and data binding. Once you read the params object, that object can never be reused again.
From the documentation:
Binding The Request Body To Command Objects
http://grails.org/doc/2.3.x/guide/theWebLayer.html#commandObjects
Note that the body of the request is being parsed to make that work. Any attempt to read the body of the request after that will fail since the corresponding input stream will be empty. The controller action can either use a command object or it can parse the body of the request on its own (either directly, or by referring to something like request.JSON), but cannot do both.
I'm trying to view the parameters within a filter (which is hit before the controller is requested). Would logging the parameters to a log cause the controller to get a null param object? From the documentation that looks to be the case. However, how can I get access to the params without wiping them out in the filter?
Once you read the params object, that object can never be reused
again.
That is not correct. You can read request parameters over and over again. What cannot be read over and over again is the body of the request. The body and the request parameters are 2 different things.
How am i able to get session variable using just session uuid (using lua).
So for example, we have session of leg_a (when someone connect sip phone). When other side answers, we will be within other session (session of leg_b).
Using just,
session:getVariable("variable_name")
will not help in that case because session refers to the current session.
How am i able to use lua to get variable name when i know session uuid. (so i can get other sessions variable, even we are within current session which is different)
Is there some kind of function where I am able to provide two parameteres, variable name and session uuid?
you need to execute the API call uuid_getvar.
value = api:execute("uuid_getvar", "UUID VARNAME");
(I forgot how to concatenate strings in Lua, but you should get the idea)
I'm doing an external API query ussing HTTParty, the resultant of that query is a hash that gets stored in an instance variable in my controller. Without saving it to my database I need to access the contents of the hash to send it as a string to another external app.
Here is my controller HTTParty call
#api_response = HTTParty.get("http://xxxxxxxxx.xx/vehicle/reg/#{#user.reg_number}/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx")
Here is the response I get that is stored in #api_response:
{"response"=>
{"basic"=>
{"reg"=>"xxx", "make"=>"xxxx", "model"=>"xxxx", "version"=>"xxxxx", "body"=>"xxxxxx", "doors"=>"x", "reg_date"=>"xxxxxx", "engine_cc"=>"xxxxxx", "colour"=>"xxxxx", "fuel"=>"xxxxxx", "transmission"=>"x", "data_type"=>"x", "co2_emissions"=>"xxx"}
}
}
As it is I'm able to display the contents of #api_response in my views, but I need to retrieve the info and pass it on.
You access values in a hash using square brackets surrounding the hash key. For example, to access reg out of that response, you would do:
#api_response["response"]["basic"]["reg"]
Is that all you're looking for, or did you need to do something else with it?