0

I'm working on an app using Azure's Mobile App services (as opposed to Azure Mobile Services). I've successfully implemented the single sign-on with FB (mentioned here: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/app-service-mobile-how-to-configure-facebook-authentication-preview/), but now that I can log in I can't figure out how to access the user information on the backend (such as basic user information and access tokens).

Could someone please provide an example or point me to a tutorial explaining how to access this data?

Improve this question
2
  • have you tried look for facebook sdk example ? you need to take the fb auth token and query fb server from your backend. Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 17:54
  • I can do this from the client, no problem, but I want to be able to do it from the server using Mobile Apps built-in OAuth setup. Commented Oct 28, 2015 at 18:56

1 Answer 1

Reset to default
1

Take a look at the following tutorial blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2013/12/16/enhanced-users-feature-in-azure-mobile-services.aspx - also http://blogs.msdn.com/b/carlosfigueira/archive/2012/10/25/getting-user-information-on-azure-mobile-services.aspx

This is written a while ago, and uses the NodeJS backend, but you should be able to translate this to .NET as the same basic information exists - you use GetIdentities() to get the facebook token, then use the Facebook REST interface or the SDK (http://facebooksdk.net/) to get the rest of the information you need.

The basic piece of information you need is to use the GetIdentities() call to get your

Improve this answer
Sign up to request clarification or add additional context in comments.

1 Comment

I've been through that one. While there is a User object exposed by APIServices, it starts out null and I've no idea how to populate it.

Start asking to get answers

Find the answer to your question by asking.

Ask question

Explore related questions

See similar questions with these tags.