OAuth Support

[idris]

As of November 2010, the Constant Contact API supports OAuth for authentication (http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Documentation/Authenticating-Requests-with-OAuth/ba-p/25073).

This library should offer OAuth support, not just Basic. Although, we should keep Basic support for legacy reasons.

[idris]

I'm thinking the code for this (after an OAuth token has been created) would look like:
ConstantContact::Base.api_key = 'api-key'
ConstantContact::Base.oauth_token = 'oauth-token'

The library can figure out the rest of the necessary request params from there.

[idris]

Update: Constant Contact dropped support for OAuth 1.0, but has now added support for OAuth 2.0! See: http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Documentation/Authenticating-Requests-with-OAuth/ba-p/25073

[eldavido]

I don't see anything in here about 1.0 vs. 2.0, am I missing something?

[idris]

You're right. What I should have said is: They supported OAuth, then they removed support for OAuth because of a security issue. Now they support OAuth again. From their documentation, it looks like they support OAuth 1.0, not 2.0

[eldavido]

I have a branch (wishery/constant_contact) that fully supports oauth using gem version 0.4.6. Please anyone else who's working on this, let's coordinate so that we don't end up duplicating effort. I'm planning to issue a pull request once I get it cleaned up a little more.

[tbtalbottjr]

Has this gone anywhere? I am looking to integrate constant contact into a service using this library and would like to use OAuth. I have no desire to store user/password combos in my database.

Also, as of 10-03-2011, constant contact refers to using OAuth 2.0.

http://community.constantcontact.com/t5/Documentation/Authentication-using-OAuth-2-0-Server-and-Client-Flows/ba-p/38313

Should I be looking at the wishery/constant_contact fork?

Thanks.