Examples

[m15ch4]

Hi guys!

Could you please provide some examples how to use openid-client (especially with Electron).

Thanks.

[panva]

especially with Electron

not gonna go ahead and write a full blown sample but inside electron you should be able to incorporate either of the CLI ready examples

• Using code flow https://gist.github.com/panva/429e0c646eb730079fe0a0070c160e1d
• Using device flow https://gist.github.com/panva/ebaacfe433a8677bdbf458f6e1132045

Both dynamically register a client, that's what you'd usually replace with a static client configuration and you should use shell.openItem instead of open in electron.

[hegelstad]

I have a problem that is not a problem with your library per se, but I would like to know if you can create an example of how to snapshot the current issuer that would be created with Issuer.discover()? The reason I am asking is that I am trying to incorporate this library as a strategy in NestJS's Passport module, but it doesn't play very well with async calls, so I would just like to quickly instantiate issuer once with discover, and then perhaps through serialization, be able to statically recreate that Issuer based on the snapshot.

[panva]

@hegelstad docs to the rescue

issuer.metadata gives you the metadata that was discovered, you can then do new Issuer(metadata) with that object. Just mind you that you should not be re-using it forever. At some point a re-discovery might make sense.