NAME Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Twitter - Twitter authentication for Catalyst VERSION version 0.03001 SYNOPSIS In MyApp.pm use Catalyst qw/ Authentication Session Session::Store::FastMmap Session::State::Cookie Session::PerUser /; MyApp->config( "Plugin::Authentication" => { default_realm => "twitter", realms => { twitter => { credential => { class => "Twitter", }, consumer_key => 'twitter-consumer_key-here', consumer_secret => 'twitter-secret-here', callback_url => 'http://mysite.com/callback', # you can bypass the above by including # "twitter_consumer_key", "twitter_consumer_secret", # and "twitter_callback_url" in your Catalyst site # configuration or yml file }, }, }, ); And then in your Controller: sub login : Local { my ($self, $c) = @_; my $realm = $c->get_auth_realm('twitter'); $c->res->redirect( $realm->credential->authenticate_twitter_url($c) ); } And finally the callback you specified in your API key request above (e.g. example.com/twitter/callback/ ): sub callback : Local { my ($self, $c) = @_; if (my $user = $c->authenticate(undef,'twitter')) { # user has an account - redirect or do something cool $c->res->redirect("/super/secret/member/area"); } else { # user doesn't have an account - either detect Twitter # credentials and create one, or return an error. # # Note that "request_token" and "request_token_secret" # are stored in $c->user_session as hashref variables under # the same names } } DESCRIPTION This module handles Twitter API authentication in a Catalyst application. Note that *Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Twitter* needs the catalyst application to also load Catalyst::Plugin::Session::PerUser to be functional. METHODS As per guidelines of Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication, there are two mandatory methods, "new" and "authenticate". Since this is not really enough for the Twitter API, I've added one more. new() Will not be called by you directly, but will use the configuration you provide (see above). Mandatory parameters are "consumer_key", "consumer_secret" and "callback_url". Note that you can also include "twitter_consumer_key", "twitter_consumer_secret", and "twitter_callback_url" as variables in your Catalyst site configuration or yml file and you don't need to pass configuration parameters in your MyApp.pm file. Please see Net::Twitter for more details on them. authenticate_twitter_url( $c ) This method will return the authentication URL. Bounce your users there before calling the "authentication" method. authenticate( ) Handles the authentication. Nothing more, nothing less. It returns a Catalyst::Authentication::User::Hash with the following keys (all coming straight from Twitter). twitter_user twitter_user_id twitter_access_token twitter_access_token_secret Your database must at least contain a column called "twitter_user_id" in your main user table. If the other keys are present they will be updated on login with Twitter's most up-to-date information for that user. authenticate_twitter( ) Only performs the twitter authentication. Returns a hashref containing the user's information given by Twitter (see "authenticate()" above for the lists of keys returned). twitter_user() Contains the user's twitter information after a successful twitter authentication via "authenticate_twitter()" or "authenticate()". Useful if, for example, you want to create users on-the-fly: sub twitter_callback :Path( 'twitter/callback' ) { my ($self, $c) = @_; my $twitter = $c->get_auth_realm('twitter')->credential; my $user = $twitter->authenticate( $c ); # properly authenticated against twitter, # user just doesn't exist yet if ( !$user and $twitter->twitter_user ) { $user = $self->model->create_user( $twitter->twitter_user ); } # etc } SEE ALSO Catalyst::Plugin::Authentication, Net::Twitter BUGS AND LIMITATIONS "Catalyst::Authentication::Credential::Twitter" works well with Catalyst::Authentication::Store::DBIx::Class, but might have problem with other stores, as its "authenticate()" method uses $realm->find_user({ twitter_user_id => $authenticated_twitter_id }, $c); to find the user. If this causes a problem for your store, you can get around it by using "authenticate_twitter()" and accessing the store manually. Please report bugs to THANKS Thanks go out Daisuke Murase for writing C::P::A::Credential::Flickr, Marc Mims and Chris Thompson for Net::Twitter. AUTHOR Jesse Stay COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2009 by Jesse Stay. This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.