What parts are needed for omniauth oauth2 custom strategy for integration with discourse

Question

I am considering using a discourse that omniauth uses for authentication. I need this to integrate with my current user base (where authorization is currently being performed by email or facebook). One possibility is to create a custom omniauth strategy (e.g. https://github.com/intridea/omniauth-oauth2 ). I would make some settings for the discourse code, but would I need to implement my current application as Oauth2? Or is there a simpler solution?

I know this is a little open; I’m probably looking at the easiest way to add discourse to this application and another million other things that are happening now, so I’m very focused on the fastest, which seems like a pretty simple use case.

THX

Answer 1

Going to the OAuth2 route seems pretty reasonable.

An alternative would be to use an Omniauth identification strategy. [1] Using the Omniauth authentication strategy, you can authenticate against your database with read-only access. It is also possible for authentication against the JSON API. [2]

[1] https://github.com/intridea/omniauth-identity [2] https://github.com/intridea/omniauth-identity#custom-auth-model