Trying out OAuth2 Authorization Code grant with WSO2 Identity Server without the PlayGround2 App

The first thing I did after joining the WSO2 Identity Server team was to test the WSO2 Identity Server 5.2.0-beta pack. I had some experience playing around with OAuth so I started testing OAuth scenarios. I was able to test most grant types with ease. Then came the authorization code grant type. The usual way to test it was to setup the playground2 app and test. I wanted to look for an alternate way to test the Authorization grant type without setting up the app (partly because I was lazy to download tomcat etc. :P )

So with the help of my team member Pushpalanka, I found an alternate way to get an access token by simply using a browser redirect and a curl command. So I wanted to make a note in case someone wanted to do the same :)


1. First, log in to the Identity Server management console.

       the defaults are,
                  username = admin

                  password = admin

2. Go to the Service Provider configuration page and create a Service Provide, let's say SP_lazy :)

3. Go to the Inbound Authentication Configuration setting and enable OAuth/OpenID connect

4. Provide the callback_url as "https://localhost/callback"

5. You can type the following in a browser (better to try in an incognito/private window)

https://localhost:9443/oauth2/authorize?response_type=code&client_id=<cliend_id>&redirect_uri=https://localhost/callback&scope=read

  

6.  You will be prompted to log in and thereafter approve to authorize the SP

you can use the same account you used to log in or any other valid user from the same tenant. (If u you want to allow users from other domains you need to enable SaaS enabled in the Service Provider Inbound Authenticator OAuth configuration)

7. Once you do that you will be redirected and you can find the code in the browser.

8. Copy the code value and use the CURL command below to send a request to the token endpoint to get an access token

curl -k -v --user <client_id>:<client_secret> -d "grant_type=authorization_code&code=<authorization_code>&redirect_uri=https://localhost/callback" https://localhost:9443/oauth2/token 

9. You will get the access_token in the terminal like below,

{"access_token":"22630eaee65fef254e9cd099a96cf793","refresh_token":"ef18653c6b109887d66356254abd09fb","scope":"read","token_type":"Bearer","expires_in":3600}