Question

I’m setting the oauth_callback URL in the request header, when I do this in Twitter, it works fine and the user is redirected to the callback URL. But using Tumblr’s API, the callback URL is ignored and the user is redirected to the default URL. Has anybody else experienced this? Is there anywhere else other than the header that I should be setting this? I tried passing it in as a parameter but that didn’t really work either.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

If you are trying a embed userid in callback url then this post can help you.
You can save your oauth token in a session and later on callback you can retrieve user from session.

on token request:

def ask_access
  tumblr_consumer = get_consumer
  if tumblr_consumer
    #1. get a request token
    request_token = tumblr_consumer.get_request_token
    session[:request_token] = request_token
    session[:user_token] = "#{request_token.params[:oauth_token]}_#{current_user.id}"
    #2. have the user authorize
    redirect_to request_token.authorize_url
  else
    render :text=> "Failed to acquire request token from Tumblr."
  end
end

on call back:

def call_back
  if params[:oauth_token] && params[:oauth_verifier]
    request_token = session[:request_token]
    user_id  = session[:user_token].split("_")[1]
    user = UserProfile.find user_id
    ##3. get an access token
    access_token = request_token.get_access_token({:oauth_verifier => params[:oauth_verifier]})
    user.tumblr_token = access_token.params[:oauth_token]
    user.tumblr_secret = access_token.params[:oauth_token_secret]
    user.save!
  end
end