Native console application quick-start

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Environment: cloud
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A quick-start guide for getting you up and running with a native console application.

Before you begin

  • you have a tenant with a user for testing sign-on

  • you have registered your application with the following options:

    • OpenID Connect native app flow

    • redirect URI of ^http://127.0.0.1\:\d{4,10}$

  • you have set a unique application client ID and secret

  • you have Visual Studio (community, professional, or enterprise edition)

Quick-start

  1. Clone or download the SuperOffice.DevNet.OpenIDConnectNativeApp from GitHub.

    git clone https://github.com/SuperOffice/SuperOffice.DevNet.OpenIDConnectNativeApp.git​

  2. In Visual Studio, go to the Source directory and open the SuperOffice.DevNet.OpenIDConnectNativeApp.sln file.

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  3. Under the Build menu, click Build Solution, or press the F6 key on the keyboard, to restore NuGet packages and build the solution file.

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  4. From the Debug menu,  click Start Debugging, or press the F5 key. Observe that the application runs and opens a console window.

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  5. Press any key. The default browser window opens to the SuperOffice sign-in page.

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  6. At this point, if you have multiple tenants, a list of available tenants appear. Choose a tenant to grant access to your application.

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  7. If this is the 1st time accessing this tenant via this application, a consent dialog appears asking for application approval to gain access to your web service resources. Click I approve.

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  8. The browser callback is shown and eventually navigates to the SuperOffice community website. This default behavior is defined in the console application code.

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  9. The console application continues and dumps the contents of the response, including the id_token, claims, and access_token.

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Next steps

At this point, you probably want to use access_token to send a request to the tenant's web services. The sample application uses the full .Net framework and you would, therefore, use the WebRequest class to send a request to the server to obtain data from the tenant.

The following code represents a basic method to issue a GET request that is later used to call the tenant web services.

private static string GetData(string uri, string tokenType, string accessToken)
{
  HttpWebRequest httpWebRequest = WebRequest.CreateHttp(uri);
  httpWebRequest.Method = "GET";
  httpWebRequest.Accept = "application/json";
  httpWebRequest.Headers.Add(HttpRequestHeader.Authorization, string.Concat(tokenType, " ", accessToken));
  var httpResponse = (HttpWebResponse)httpWebRequest.GetResponse();
  using (var streamReader = new StreamReader(httpResponse.GetResponseStream()))
  {
    var responseText = streamReader.ReadToEnd();
    Console.WriteLine(responseText);
    return responseText;
  }
}

The 1st thing needed is the web service URL. In this case, I extract the base webapi_url (REST) and the current user's associateId from the claims.

// result is the LoginResult provided by the OidcClient library used earlier in this sample

var webApiUrl = result.User.Claims.Where(c => c.Type.Contains("webapi_url")).Select(n => n.Value).FirstOrDefault();
var associateid = result.User.Claims.Where(c => c.Type.Contains("associateid")).Select(n => n.Value).FirstOrDefault();

Build up the search URL using a combination of the webApiUrl and the web service version URI to invoke an OData query against an archive provider search.

// search the tenant for the companyId and personId of the logged-in associate
// build up the OData query to perform a search using the InternalUsers archive provider

var uri = $"v1/Archive/InternalUsers?$entities=all&$select=contactId,personId&$filter=associateDbId eq {associateid}";

var queryResult = GetData(string.Concat(webApiUrl, uri), "Bearer", result.AccessToken);

Search results

{
  "odata.metadata": "https://sod.superoffice.com:443/Cust12345/api/v1/Archive//$metadata",
  "odata.nextLink": null,
  "value": [
    {
      "PrimaryKey": "5",
      "EntityName": "all",
      "personId": 5,
      "contactId": 2
    }
  ]
}