Facebook token expiration and renewal, with Koala and omniauth-facebook

Question

I\'m writing a Rails app that uses omniauth-facebook to authenticate the user against FB (and to get a FB OAuth access token for the user). The app then uses Koala to make

Answer 1

What I have is a before_filter that is triggered on every page that requires an active Facebook session. Something like this should work:

  before_filter :reconnect_with_facebook
  def reconnect_with_facebook
    if current_account && current_account.token_expired?(session[:fb]["expires"])

    # re-request a token from facebook. Assume that we got a new token so
    # update it anyhow...
    session[:return_to] = request.env["REQUEST_URI"] unless request.env["REQUEST_URI"] == facebook_request_path
    redirect_to(with_canvas(facebook_request_path)) and return false
  end
end

The token_expired? method looks like this:

def token_expired?(new_time = nil)
  expiry = (new_time.nil? ? token_expires_at : Time.at(new_time))
  return true if expiry < Time.now ## expired token, so we should quickly return
  token_expires_at = expiry
  save if changed?
  false # token not expired. :D
end

Answer 2

You can do something like this where you check if the access_token is expired and generate another one.

 %w[facebook].each do |provider|
   scope provider, -> { where(provider: provider) }
 end

 def client
   send("#{provider}_client")
 end

 def expired?
   expires_at? && expires_at <= Time.zone.now
 end

 def access_token
   send("#{provider}_refresh_token!", super) if expired?
   super
 end

 def facebook_refresh_token!(token)
   new_token_info = 
   Koala::Facebook::OAuth.new.exchange_access_token_info(token)
   update(access_token: new_token_info["access_token"], expires_at: Time.zone.now + new_token_info["expires_in"])
 end

You can check gorails screencast that explains this on depth.

Answer 3

I came across this post which adapts code from the Railscast on Facebook to show how you can exchange the short-lived token for the 60-day one:

user.rb

 def self.from_omniauth(auth)

    # immediately get 60 day auth token
    oauth = Koala::Facebook::OAuth.new(ENV["FACEBOOK_APP_ID"], ENV["FACEBOOK_SECRET"])
    new_access_info = oauth.exchange_access_token_info auth.credentials.token

    new_access_token = new_access_info["access_token"]
    # Facebook updated expired attribute
    new_access_expires_at = DateTime.now + new_access_info["expires_in"].to_i.seconds

    where(auth.slice(:provider, :uid)).first_or_initialize.tap do |user|
      user.provider = auth.provider
      user.uid = auth.uid
      user.name = auth.info.name
      user.image = auth.info.image
      user.email = auth.info.email
      user.oauth_token = new_access_token #originally auth.credentials.token
      user.oauth_expires_at = new_access_expires_at #originally Time.at(auth.credentials.expires_at)
      user.save!
    end
  end