Question

I am lost in all my open browser tabs for Google single sign on 🙂

I already have an application which I would like to put on Google market place. And mandatory integration is Google SSO. I have built application on Struts2 with Spring.

So now I need some instructions how to make this integration. An example would be perfect. Or how to start, which technology to use, best approaches, anything similar…

Also, do I have to use Google App Engine for SSO integration or no? Honestly, I am confused 🙂

EDIT

I started here: developers.google.com/google-apps/marketplace/sso Because I use Java, if you look at Getting started at the bottom, I wanted to use step2, but the link is dead. From there on I got stuck…

Links here are also dead.

Answer 1

I made with Apache’s HttpClient. This is my solution and works perfectly for me.

First point to authorization url:

https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth?scope=https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile+https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email&state=%2Fprofile&response_type=code&client_id=<YOUR_CLIENT_ID>&redirect_uri=<YOUR_CALLBACK_URL>

Then get parameters back from your redirect_uri and build request body for getting access_token:

    String code =  request.getParameter("code");
    String foros = "code="+code +
                "&client_id=<YOUR_CLIENT_ID>" +
                "&client_secret=<YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET>" +
                "&redirect_uri="+getText("google.auth.redirect.uri") +
                "&grant_type=authorization_code";

Then with HttpClient make a POST and with simple JSON parser parse out the access token.

    HttpClient client = new HttpClient();
    String url = "https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token";
    PostMethod post = new PostMethod(url);
    post.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");

    try {
        post.setRequestEntity(new StringRequestEntity(foros, null, null));
    } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }
    String accessToken = null;
    try {
        client.executeMethod(post);
        String resp = post.getResponseBodyAsString();
        JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
        Object obj = jsonParser.parse(resp);
        JSONObject parsed = (JSONObject)obj;            
        accessToken = (String) parsed.get("access_token");
    } catch (HttpException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }

Now you have the access token and you can now access all of the Google API. For example, getting all the users info:

    GetMethod getUserInfo = new GetMethod("https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/userinfo?access_token="+accessToken);

    String googleId = null;
    String email = null;
    String name = null;
    String firstName = null;
    String lastName = null;
    try {
        client.executeMethod(getUserInfo);
        String resp = getUserInfo.getResponseBodyAsString();
        JSONParser jsonParser = new JSONParser();
        Object obj = jsonParser.parse(resp);
        JSONObject parsed = (JSONObject)obj;
        googleId = (String) parsed.get("id");
        email = (String) parsed.get("email");
        name = (String) parsed.get("name");
        firstName = (String) parsed.get("given_name");
        lastName = (String) parsed.get("family_name");
    } catch (IOException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    } catch (ParseException e) {
        throw new RuntimeException(e);
    }

This data you can now save and use it for login to your application.