Authorization state

An AuthState object manages an authorization state, typically on behalf of a wrapper package that makes requests to a Google API.

The vignette("gargle-auth-in-client-package) describes a design for wrapper packages that relies on an AuthState object. This state can then be incorporated into the package's requests for tokens and can control the inclusion of tokens in requests to the target API.

• api_key is the simplest way to associate a request with a specific Google Cloud Platform project. A few calls to certain APIs, e.g. reading a public Sheet, can succeed with an API key, but this is the exception.

• client is an OAuth client ID (and secret) associated with a specific Google Cloud Platform project. This is used in the OAuth flow, in which an authenticated user authorizes the client to access or manipulate data on their behalf.

• auth_active reflects whether outgoing requests will be authorized by an authenticated user or are unauthorized requests for public resources. These two states correspond to sending a request with a token versus an API key, respectively.

• cred is where the current token is cached within a session, once one has been fetched. It is generally assumed to be an instance of httr::TokenServiceAccount or httr::Token2.0 (or a subclass thereof), probably obtained via token_fetch() (or one of its constituent credential fetching functions).

An AuthState should be created through the constructor function init_AuthState(), which has more details on the arguments.

Public fields

package

Package name.

client

An OAuth client.

app

Use client instead.

api_key

An API key.

auth_active

Logical, indicating whether auth is active.

cred

Credentials.

Methods

Public methods

• AuthState$new()

• AuthState$format()

• AuthState$set_client()

• AuthState$set_app()

• AuthState$set_api_key()

• AuthState$set_auth_active()

• AuthState$set_cred()

• AuthState$clear_cred()

• AuthState$get_cred()

• AuthState$has_cred()

• AuthState$clone()

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Method new()

Create a new AuthState

Usage

AuthState$new(
  package = NA_character_,
  client = NULL,
  api_key = NULL,
  auth_active = TRUE,
  cred = NULL,
  app = deprecated()
)

Arguments

package

Package name.

client

An OAuth client.

api_key

An API key.

auth_active

Logical, indicating whether auth is active.

cred

Credentials.

app

Use client instead.

Details

For more details on the parameters, see init_AuthState()

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Method format()

Format an AuthState

Usage

AuthState$format(...)

Arguments

...

Not used.

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Method set_client()

Set the OAuth client

Usage

AuthState$set_client(client)

Arguments

client

An OAuth client.

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Method set_app()

Deprecated method to set the OAuth client

Usage

AuthState$set_app(app)

Arguments

app

Use client instead.

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Method set_api_key()

Set the API key

Usage

AuthState$set_api_key(value)

Arguments

value

An API key.

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Method set_auth_active()

Set whether auth is (in)active

Usage

AuthState$set_auth_active(value)

Arguments

value

Logical, indicating whether to send requests authorized with user credentials.

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Method set_cred()

Set credentials

Usage

AuthState$set_cred(cred)

Arguments

cred

User credentials.

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Method clear_cred()

Clear credentials

Usage

AuthState$clear_cred()

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Method get_cred()

Get credentials

Usage

AuthState$get_cred()

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Method has_cred()

Report if we have credentials

Usage

AuthState$has_cred()

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

AuthState$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.