Use Google api without logging out the current user

noname · March 17, 2015, 5:00pm

Im using accounts-password package and I don’t want to use any other services for login.

But in my app I have a requirement to use google api.

So how can I use Google api without logging out the current user, I need to request offline token too, Is there any way to do this?
I want to keep the login info in my db, it is just like login with google but I don’t want to logout the user logged in with password just like accounts-merge packages,but they’ll login the user which is not my requirement
Can somebody explain the flow how can I do this?

Any recommended packages?

Thx

robfallows · March 17, 2015, 5:20pm

If I understand your requirement correctly, you’ll need to talk directly to the API with Meteor’s HTTP calls.

You could also take a look at https://atmospherejs.com/centiq/crest - a lightweight wrapper package for accessing generic REST endpoints (disclosure: I work for Centiq).

gabrielhpugliese · March 17, 2015, 6:47pm

This is how I do on CodersTV:

github.com

CodersTV/site/blob/master/server/lib/google.js

Google = {};
GPlus = {};

(function () {
  var debug = Meteor.npmRequire('debug')('ct:google.js');
  var googleapis = Meteor.npmRequire('googleapis');
  var OAuth2Client = googleapis.OAuth2Client;
  var googleAccount = ServiceConfiguration.configurations._collection.findOne({
    service: 'google'
  });

  /*
   * Google OAuth methods
   */

  Google = {
    CLIENT_ID: googleAccount.clientId,
    CLIENT_SECRET: googleAccount.secret,
    REDIRECT_URL: '/_oauth/google?close'
  };

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To request offline token, it’s a configuration: http://docs.meteor.com/#/full/meteor_loginwithexternalservice
{requestOfflineToken: true}

serkandurusoy · March 17, 2015, 7:17pm

What you can do is add accounts-google to your project and use one of (I’m sure there are a couple others similar)

To link your users’ google accounts to their local accounts.

And just like @gabrielhpugliese explained, use requestOfflineToken: true so that you don’t need them online while you are making API calls.