Comments on: Netflix API Authentication with the Ruby Oauth Gem http://mandarinsoda.com/2008/10/19/netflix-authentication-with-ruby-oauth/ Random Musings, Sometimes Programming. Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:41:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Lee http://mandarinsoda.com/2008/10/19/netflix-authentication-with-ruby-oauth/comment-page-1/#comment-560 Lee Thu, 27 Nov 2008 02:38:32 +0000 http://mandarinsoda.com/?p=204#comment-560 Thanks for this. It's helpful. I've got a special problem that I'm stuck on. My users are not coming in via browser, so I can't redirect them to get an access_token. I think I can get them to do this once during registration and then store their access_token for future use. According to Netflix, it doesn't expire. So, I'm trying to figure out how to replace the calls to authorize_url (not needed) and get_access_token with something that I retrieve from my database, associated with the user. The trouble is that I can't figure out how to use the library to make this work. I've tried replacing the get_access_token call with the internal constructor it contains for OAuth::AccessToken, but I'm doing something wrong, because my subsequent requests fail with either a 401 Unauthorized or undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass. That second error seems to come from the missing access_token.response[:user_id]. But the OAuth::AccessToken constructor didn't take that as a parameter, so I'm confused by how it gets populated. Can you enlighten me? (Sorry for this long comment. It's not spam. :-) Thanks for this. It’s helpful.

I’ve got a special problem that I’m stuck on. My users are not coming in via browser, so I can’t redirect them to get an access_token. I think I can get them to do this once during registration and then store their access_token for future use. According to Netflix, it doesn’t expire.

So, I’m trying to figure out how to replace the calls to authorize_url (not needed) and get_access_token with something that I retrieve from my database, associated with the user.

The trouble is that I can’t figure out how to use the library to make this work. I’ve tried replacing the get_access_token call with the internal constructor it contains for OAuth::AccessToken, but I’m doing something wrong, because my subsequent requests fail with either a 401 Unauthorized or undefined method `[]‘ for nil:NilClass.

That second error seems to come from the missing access_token.response[:user_id]. But the OAuth::AccessToken constructor didn’t take that as a parameter, so I’m confused by how it gets populated.

Can you enlighten me? (Sorry for this long comment. It’s not spam. :-)

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