oauth_webauth 2.0.0+4

This plugin provides an alternative to AppAuth using WebView for OAuth 2.0 authorization/authentication.

OAuth WebAuth

This plugin offers a WebView implementation approach for OAuth authorization/authentication with identity providers.

Compatibility

Platform	Compatibility
Android	✅
iOS	✅
Web	Work in progress

Preamble

Other plugins like Flutter AppAuth uses native implementation of AppAuth which in turn uses SFAuthenticationSession and CustomTabs for iOS and Android respectively. When using SFAuthenticationSession and CustomTabs your app will/could present some problems like:

• UI: users will notice a breaking UI difference when system browser opens to handle the identity provider authentication process.
• In iOS an annoying system dialog shows up every time the user tries to authenticate, indicating that the current app and browser could share their information.
• Your system browser cache is shared with your app which is good and bad, bad because any cache problem due to your every day navigation use could affect your app authentication and the only way to clean cache it's by cleaning system browser cache at operating system level.
• Authentication page will use the locale from System Browser which in fact uses the Operating System locale, this means if your app uses different language than the Operating System then authentication page will show different internationalization than your app.

Features

With this plugin you will get:

• Full control over the UI, WebView will run inside your app so Theme and Color Scheme will be yours to choose, in fact you can add AppBar or FloatingActionButton or whatever you thinks it's necessary to your UI.
• No system dialog will be shown when users tries to authenticate.
• Users will not be affected by any system browser problem cache and also will be able to clean app browser cache from the authentication screen itself.
• Authentication page locale can be set from app using the contentLocale property to ensure the same locale. By default Operating System locale will be used if no contentLocale is specified.

Note:

• contentLocale will apply only if the authentication page supports the specified Locale('...') and accepts the header: 'Accept-Language': 'es-ES'

Migration from ^1.0.0 to ^2.0.0

• Static constants key for tooltips, message and hero tags were moved from OAuthWebView to BaseWebView
• OAuthWebView renamed onSuccess function to onSuccessAuth.

Getting started

As stated before this plugin uses WebView implementation specifically the plugin flutter_inappwebview. For any WebView related problem please check the documentation of that plugin at docs.

Android setup

Just add the internet permission to your AndroidManifest

<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" package="com.example.example">  
    <uses-permission android:name="android.permission.INTERNET"/>  
 <application>  
    ...
 </application>

iOS setup

Just add this to your Info.plist

<plist version="1.0">  
<dict>
    ....
    ....
    <key>NSAppTransportSecurity</key>
    <dict>
        <key>NSAllowsArbitraryLoads</key>
        <true/>
    </dict>
    ....
    ....
</dict>  
</plist>

Usage

• This plugin offers a widget OAuthWebView which handles all the authorization/authentication and navigation logic; this widget can be used in any widget tree of your current app or as an individual authentication screen. For individual authentication screen it offers the widget OAuthWebScreen which can be started as a new route and also handles the Android back button to navigate backward when applies.
• In addition, this plugin offers a simple widget BaseWebView which may be useful for cases in which you need to handle a link to your Auth server, let's say for email confirmation, or password reset, etc. This widget will handle the web UI and automatically get back to you when loaded any of the specified redirectUrls. The BaseWebView widget works very similar to OAuthWebView, it can be used in any widget tree of your current app or as an individual screen. For individual screen it offers the widget BaseWebScreen which can be started as a new route and also handles the Android back button to navigate backward when applies. NOTE: all widgets can be extended to change/improve its features.

OAuthWebView

An authorization/authentication process can get 3 outputs.

1. User successfully authenticates
2. An error occurred during authorization/authentication, or maybe certificate validation failed
3. User canceled authentication

This plugin offers two variants to handle these outputs.

Variant 1

Awaiting response from navigator route Future.

void loginV1() async {
  final result = await OAuthWebScreen.start(
      context: context,
      authorizationEndpointUrl: authorizationEndpointUrl,
      tokenEndpointUrl: tokenEndpointUrl,
      clientSecret: clientSecret,
      clientId: clientId,
      redirectUrl: redirectUrl,
      scopes: scopes,
      promptValues: const ['login'],
      loginHint: '[e-mail]',
      onCertificateValidate: (certificate) {
        ///This is recommended
        /// Do certificate validations here
        /// If false is returned then a CertificateException() will be thrown
        return true;
      },
      contentLocale: Locale('es'),
      refreshBtnVisible: false,
      clearCacheBtnVisible: false,
      textLocales: {
        ///Optionally texts can be localized
        OAuthWebView.backButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir atrás',
        OAuthWebView.forwardButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir adelante',
        OAuthWebView.reloadButtonTooltipKey: 'Recargar',
        OAuthWebView.clearCacheButtonTooltipKey: 'Limpiar caché',
        OAuthWebView.closeButtonTooltipKey: 'Cerrar',
        OAuthWebView.clearCacheWarningMessageKey:
        '¿Está seguro que desea limpiar la caché?',
      });
  if (result != null) {
    if (result is Credentials) {
      authResponse = getPrettyCredentialsJson(result);
    } else {
      authResponse = result.toString();
    }
  } else {
    authResponse = 'User cancelled authentication';
  }
  setState(() {});
}

Variant2

Using callbacks

void loginV2() {
 OAuthWebScreen.start(
     context: context,
     authorizationEndpointUrl: authorizationEndpointUrl,
     tokenEndpointUrl: tokenEndpointUrl,
     clientSecret: clientSecret,
     clientId: clientId,
     redirectUrl: redirectUrl,
     scopes: scopes,
     promptValues: const ['login'],
     loginHint: '[e-mail]',
     onCertificateValidate: (certificate) {
       ///This is recommended
       /// Do certificate validations here
       /// If false is returned then a CertificateException() will be thrown
       return true;
     },
     contentLocale: Locale('es'),
     refreshBtnVisible: false,
     clearCacheBtnVisible: false,
     textLocales: {
       ///Optionally text can be localized
       OAuthWebView.backButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir atrás',
       OAuthWebView.forwardButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir adelante',
       OAuthWebView.reloadButtonTooltipKey: 'Recargar',
       OAuthWebView.clearCacheButtonTooltipKey: 'Limpiar caché',
       OAuthWebView.closeButtonTooltipKey: 'Cerrar',
       OAuthWebView.clearCacheWarningMessageKey:
       '¿Está seguro que desea limpiar la caché?',
     },
     onSuccess: (credentials) {
       setState(() {
         authResponse = getPrettyCredentialsJson(credentials);
       });
     },
     onError: (error) {
       setState(() {
         authResponse = error.toString();
       });
     },
     onCancel: () {
       setState(() {
         authResponse = 'User cancelled authentication';
       });
     });
}

BaseWebView

3 possible outputs.

1. User is successfully redirected.
2. An error occurred during navigation.
3. User canceled web view.

This plugin offers two variants to handle these outputs.

Variant 1

Awaiting response from navigator route Future.

void baseRedirectV1() async {
  final result = await BaseWebScreen.start(
    context: context,
    initialUrl: initialUrl,
    redirectUrls: [redirectUrl, baseUrl],
    onCertificateValidate: (certificate) {
      ///This is recommended
      /// Do certificate validations here
      /// If false is returned then a CertificateException() will be thrown
      return true;
    },
    textLocales: {
      ///Optionally texts can be localized
      BaseWebView.backButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir atrás',
      BaseWebView.forwardButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir adelante',
      BaseWebView.reloadButtonTooltipKey: 'Recargar',
      BaseWebView.clearCacheButtonTooltipKey: 'Limpiar caché',
      BaseWebView.closeButtonTooltipKey: 'Cerrar',
      BaseWebView.clearCacheWarningMessageKey:
      '¿Está seguro que desea limpiar la caché?',
    },
    contentLocale: contentLocale,
    refreshBtnVisible: false,
    clearCacheBtnVisible: false,
  );
  if (result != null) {
    if (result is bool && result == true) { /// If result is true it means redirected successful
      response = 'User redirected';
    } else {
      response = result.toString(); /// If result is not bool then some error occurred
    }
  } else {
    response = 'User cancelled'; /// If no result means user cancelled
  }
  setState(() {});
}

Variant2

Using callbacks

void baseRedirectV2() {
 BaseWebScreen.start(
     context: context,
     initialUrl: initialUrl,
     redirectUrls: [redirectUrl, baseUrl],
     onCertificateValidate: (certificate) {
       ///This is recommended
       /// Do certificate validations here
       /// If false is returned then a CertificateException() will be thrown
       return true;
     },
     textLocales: {
       ///Optionally text can be localized
       BaseWebView.backButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir atrás',
       BaseWebView.forwardButtonTooltipKey: 'Ir adelante',
       BaseWebView.reloadButtonTooltipKey: 'Recargar',
       BaseWebView.clearCacheButtonTooltipKey: 'Limpiar caché',
       BaseWebView.closeButtonTooltipKey: 'Cerrar',
       BaseWebView.clearCacheWarningMessageKey:
       '¿Está seguro que desea limpiar la caché?',
     },
     contentLocale: contentLocale,
     refreshBtnVisible: false,
     clearCacheBtnVisible: false,
     onSuccess: () {
       setState(() {
         response = 'User redirected';
       });
     },
     onError: (error) {
       setState(() {
         response = error.toString();
       });
     },
     onCancel: () {
       setState(() {
         response = 'User cancelled';
       });
     });
}

Notes

• goBackBtnVisible, goForwardBtnVisible, refreshBtnVisible, clearCacheBtnVisible, closeBtnVisible allows you to show/hide buttons from toolbar, if you want to completely hide toolbar, set all buttons to false.
• For more details on how to use check the sample project of this plugin.