Creating a new user with credentials, then obtaining a token for that user with Doorkeeper in an API
doorkeeper, oauth, ruby-on-rails
Solution
It was the simplest of things! I was overcomplicating it by trying to POST, when in actual fact I could simply generate the DoorKeeper::AccessToken in user#create, and then return this.
Here's the code to generate the token:
access_token = Doorkeeper::AccessToken.create!(:application_id => application_id, :resource_owner_id => user_id)
Problem
I'm building an API, protected by Doorkeeper. If I manually create the user (with password) in the backend, and then post the following to `oauth/token`, Doorkeeper successfully generates an access token for the user and returns it: ``` data = { username: $("#email_sign_in").val(), password: $("#password").val(), grant_type: 'password', client_id: '880c16e50aee5893446541a8a0b3788....', client_secret: 'a5108e1a1aeb87d0bb49d33d8c50d....', provider: 'identity' } ``` However, I'm trying to get my head around how I could do a sign up flow. I've happily got `users/create` working, in so far as it creates a user and password, but I'm not sure how to then generate the Doorkeeper::AccessToken in the next step, and return it to the client. Ideally, after creating the user in the user#create action I'd then redirect to POST to `oauth/token`, with the user's name and password, but I know that you can't redirect to a POST. I've had a dig around the Doorkeeper source, but am getting a bit lost in all this clever middleware. Any advice on this is greatly appreciated!