This pull request introduces significant improvements to the PlexAuthController, enhancing its reliability, error handling, and overall functionality for Plex authentication.
Key Changes
Consistent API Calls: Introduced a unified plex_request method for all Plex API interactions, ensuring consistent headers and error handling across all requests.
JSON Parsing: Updated all methods to use JSON parsing instead of XML, aligning with Plex API's preferred response format.
Rate Limiting Handling: Implemented an exponential backoff strategy in the generate_plex_pin method to handle Plex API rate limiting (HTTP 429 errors).
Improved Error Handling: Added comprehensive error handling and logging throughout the controller, including specific handling for JSON parsing errors.
Consistent Client Identifier: Introduced a VOTERR_CLIENT_ID constant, ensuring a consistent client identifier is used across all Plex interactions.
Enhanced Plex Auth URL Generation: Updated the plex_auth_url method to include all necessary parameters and headers required by the Plex OAuth flow.
Robust Callback Handling: Refactored the callback method to handle potential nil returns from user data and server ID fetching operations.
Logging Improvements: Added detailed logging throughout the authentication process for better debugging and monitoring.
Impact
These changes address several issues:
Eliminates the "Security Alert" warning during Plex authentication by using a consistent client identifier.
Reduces the likelihood of rate limiting issues with Plex API.
Improves the reliability of the authentication process by handling various edge cases and potential errors.
Enhances debugging capabilities with more comprehensive logging.
Testing
The updated controller has been tested locally with the following scenarios:
Successful Plex authentication flow
Handling of rate limiting errors
Error cases such as failed pin generation and user data fetching
PlexAuthController Refactor and Improvements
This pull request introduces significant improvements to the PlexAuthController, enhancing its reliability, error handling, and overall functionality for Plex authentication.
Key Changes
Impact
These changes address several issues:
Testing
The updated controller has been tested locally with the following scenarios: