Upgrading from the OpenID 1.x series library

Consumer Upgrade

The flow is largely the same, however there are a number of significant changes. The consumer example is helpful to look at: examples/rails_openid/app/controllers/consumer_controller.rb

Stores

You will need to require the file for the store that you are using. For the filesystem store, this is ‘openid/stores/filesystem’ They are also now in modules. The filesystem store is

  OpenID::Store::Filesystem

The format has changed, and you should remove your old store directory.

The ActiveRecord store ( examples/active_record_openid_store ) still needs to be put in a plugin directory for your rails app. There‘s a migration that needs to be run; examine the README in that directory.

Also, note that the stores now can be garbage collected with the method

  store.cleanup

Starting the OpenID transaction

The OpenIDRequest object no longer has status codes. Instead, consumer.begin raises an OpenID::OpenIDError if there is a problem initiating the transaction, so you‘ll want something along the lines of:

  begin
    openid_request = consumer.begin(params[:openid_identifier])
  rescue OpenID::OpenIDError => e
    # display error e
    return
  end
  #success case

Data regarding the OpenID server once lived in

  openid_request.service

The corresponding object in the 2.0 lib can be retrieved with

  openid_request.endpoint

Getting the unverified identifier: Where you once had

  openid_request.identity_url

you will now want

  openid_request.endpoint.claimed_id

which might be different from what you get at the end of the transaction, since it is now possible for users to enter their server‘s url directly.

Arguments on the return_to URL are now verified, so if you want to add additional arguments to the return_to url, use

  openid_request.return_to_args['param'] = value

Generating the redirect is the same as before, but add any extensions first.

If you need to set up an SSL certificate authority list for the fetcher, use the ‘ca_file’ attr_accessor on the OpenID::StandardFetcher. This has changed from ‘ca_path’ in the 1.x.x series library. That is, set OpenID.fetcher.ca_file = ’/path/to/ca.list’ before calling consumer.begin.

Requesting Simple Registration Data

You‘ll need to require the code for the extension

  require 'openid/extensions/sreg'

The new code for adding an SReg request now looks like:

  sreg_request = OpenID::SReg::Request.new
  sreg_request.request_fields(['email', 'dob'], true) # required
  sreg_request.request_fields(['nickname', 'fullname'], false) # optional
  sreg_request.policy_url = policy_url
  openid_request.add_extension(sreg_request)

The code for adding other extensions is similar. Code for the Attribute Exchange (AX) and Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE) are included with the library, and additional extensions can be implemented subclassing OpenID::Extension.

Completing the transaction

The return_to and its arguments are verified, so you need to pass in the base URL and the arguments. With Rails, the params method mashes together parameters from GET, POST, and the path, so you‘ll need to pull off the path "parameters" with something like

  return_to = url_for(:only_path => false,
                      :controller => 'openid',
                      :action => 'complete')
  parameters = params.reject{|k,v| request.path_parameters[k] }
  openid_response = consumer.complete(parameters, return_to)

The response still uses the status codes, but they are now namespaced slightly differently, for example OpenID::Consumer::SUCCESS

In the case of failure, the error message is now found in

  openid_response.message

The identifier to display to the user can be found in

  openid_response.endpoint.display_identifier

The Simple Registration response can be read from the OpenID response with

  sreg_response = OpenID::SReg::Response.from_success_response(openid_response)
  nickname = sreg_response['nickname']
  # etc.

Server Upgrade

The server code is mostly the same as before, with the exception of extensions. Also, you must pass in the endpoint URL to the server constructor:

  @server = OpenID::Server.new(store, server_url)

I recommend looking at examples/rails_openid/app/controllers/server_controller.rb for an example of the new way of doing extensions.