NextGIS standard Qt library implements standard API for console or GUI applications and my.nextgis.com service.
The library has the following functionality:
- Basic CoreApplication for command line parsing, translation loading and Settings
- Basic GUIApplication for create main windows, panes, styles (dark and light), UI specific controls, etc.
- oAuth2 authorization to my.nextgis.com using login/password or code flow. Store refresh and connect tokens.
- Exit from account
- Fetch user details from my.nextgis.com including current plan and it expire period, Web GIS, etc.
- Notify application about some events (refresh oAuth token failed, server side messages, finished of processing tasks and etc.).
- [Future] Account management (change plan, change details, Web GIS activities, etc.)
- Check for updates using nextgisupdater application
The following software use NextGIS authorization capabilities of NextGIS standard Qt library:
- NextGIS QGIS
- NextGIS QGIS plugings:
- NextGIS Connect [planned]
- NextGIS Data [planned]
- QuickMapServices [planned]
- DTClassifier
- NextGIS Formbuilder
- NextGIS Manager [planned]
- NextGIS Manuscript
Library has C++ API and Python bindings using sip.
Best practices for oAuth in desktop applications:
- https://auth0.com/blog/oauth-2-best-practices-for-native-apps/
- https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/OAuth2InstalledApp
- http://wiki.oauth.net/w/page/27249271/OAuth%202%20for%20Native%20Apps
- https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-oauth-native-apps-03
Antipattern:
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