OAuth2 Authentication and Operations in Unity

Question

I need to implement OAuth2 authentication and some operations for a Windows Mobile application in Unity. I have managed to make it work as a console application (using .NET 4.0 and above), however, Unity only supports up until .NET 3.5, so simply copying the code didn't work. Is there any way to make it work in Unity? Here is my authentication code:

private static async Task<string> GetAccessToken()
    {
        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://someurl.com");
            var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
            {
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("grant_type", "client_credentials"),
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("client_id", "login-secret"),
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("client_secret", "secretpassword")
            });
            var result = await client.PostAsync("/oauth/token", content);
            string resultContent = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            var json = JObject.Parse(resultContent);
            return json["access_token"].ToString();
        }
    }

And this is one of my OAuth2 functions:

private static async Task<string> GetMeasurements(string id, DateTime from, DateTime to)
    {
        using (var client = new HttpClient())
        {
            client.BaseAddress = new Uri("https://someurl.com");
            var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
            {
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("MeasurePoints", id),
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("Sampling", "Auto"),
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("From", from.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ")),
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("To", to.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ"))
            });
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "Bearer " + GetAccessToken().Result);
            var result = await client.PostAsync("/api/v2/Measurements", content);
            string resultContent = await result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
            var rootArray = JArray.Parse(resultContent);
            string measurements = "";
            foreach (JObject item in rootArray)
            {
                measurements = item.GetValue("Measurements").ToString();
            }

            return measurements;
        }
    }

If you have any suggestions, I will be grateful for eternity. Thanks!

Solution 1

It's not really that hard to translate to old .NET version. You can use Unity's WWW or UnityWebRequest API. Any of them should do it.

1.Replace HttpClient with UnityWebRequest.

2.Replace KeyValuePair, with Dictionary.

3.Replace DefaultRequestHeaders with SetRequestHeader.

4.Replace client.PostAsync with UnityWebRequest.Send

5.For Json, use unity's JsonUtility

6.For Json array in your GetMeasurements function, use the JsonHelper class from this post.

That's it. I was able to do a quick porting. Didn't test it but it was able to compile and should get you started.

GetAccessToken function:

[Serializable]
public class TokenClassName
{
    public string access_token;
}

private static IEnumerator GetAccessToken(Action<string> result)
{
    Dictionary<string, string> content = new Dictionary<string, string>();
    //Fill key and value
    content.Add("grant_type", "client_credentials");
    content.Add("client_id", "login-secret");
    content.Add("client_secret", "secretpassword");

    UnityWebRequest www = UnityWebRequest.Post("https://someurl.com//oauth/token", content);
    //Send request
    yield return www.Send();

    if (!www.isError)
    {
        string resultContent = www.downloadHandler.text;
        TokenClassName json = JsonUtility.FromJson<TokenClassName>(resultContent);

        //Return result
        result(json.access_token);
    }
    else
    {
        //Return null
        result("");
    }
}

GetMeasurements function:

[Serializable]
public class MeasurementClassName
{
    public string Measurements;
}

private static IEnumerator GetMeasurements(string id, DateTime from, DateTime to, Action<string> result)
{
    Dictionary<string, string> content = new Dictionary<string, string>();
    //Fill key and value
    content.Add("MeasurePoints", id);
    content.Add("Sampling", "Auto");
    content.Add("From", from.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ"));
    content.Add("To", to.ToString("yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ssZ"));
    content.Add("client_secret", "secretpassword");

    UnityWebRequest www = UnityWebRequest.Post("https://someurl.com/api/v2/Measurements", content);

    string token = null;

    yield return GetAccessToken((tokenResult) => { token = tokenResult; });

    www.SetRequestHeader("Authorization", "Bearer " + token);
    www.Send();

    if (!www.isError)
    {
        string resultContent = www.downloadHandler.text;
        MeasurementClassName[] rootArray = JsonHelper.FromJson<MeasurementClassName>(resultContent);

        string measurements = "";
        foreach (MeasurementClassName item in rootArray)
        {
            measurements = item.Measurements;
        }

        //Return result
        result(measurements);
    }
    else
    {
        //Return null
        result("");
    }
}

Usage:

string id = "";
DateTime from = new DateTime();
DateTime to = new DateTime();

StartCoroutine(GetMeasurements(id, from, to, (measurementResult) =>
{
    string measurement = measurementResult;

    //Do something with measurement
    UnityEngine.Debug.Log(measurement);

}));

Solution 2

I think you should check this out : https://docs.unity3d.com/Manual/UnityWebRequest.html

this class provides the functionalities you want , usable in a coroutine.

alternatively: use UNIRX to post and get async. this lib has great web handling parts. https://github.com/neuecc/UniRx

Comments

[Istvan]

Thanks, I'll check it out!