February 2012
Beginner to intermediate
78 pages
2h 13m
English
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User Experience
A JavaScript-based Contacts picker for selecting users to invite to a Photo Viewer application is a great example use case for the Implicit Grant flow. It is a valuable activity for both the user and the application developer, it doesn’t happen regularly, and the user is always responsible for choosing which users to invite from his or her contacts.
The user experience is identical to the Server-Side Web Application flow described in Chapter 2:
Photo Viewer application lets the user know that it needs access to her Contacts.
The OAuth authorization server used by the Contact app’s API prompts the user to grant permission for the Photo Viewer application to read her contacts.
After the user has approved, she is redirected back to the Photo Viewer application, which now has access to her contacts.