(MFC) Okta Client Credentials FLow

The Client Credentials flow is recommended for use in machine-to-machine authentication. Your application will need to securely store its Client ID and Secret and pass those to Okta in exchange for an access token. At a high-level, the flow only has two steps:

• Your application passes its client credentials to your Okta authorization server.
• If the credentials are accurate, Okta responds with an access token.

Note: This example uses "customScope". You'll replace it with whatever scope(s) you've defined for your app. Scopes are defined in your Authorization Server. See Okta Authorization Server / Scopes

For more information, see https://developer.okta.com/docs/guides/implement-client-creds/use-flow/

Chilkat C/C++ Library Downloads MS Visual C/C++ Libs

See Also: Using MFC CString in Chilkat

#include <CkHttp.h>
#include <CkHttpRequest.h>
#include <CkHttpResponse.h>
#include <CkStringBuilder.h>
#include <CkJsonObject.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkString strOut;

    // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http;
    bool success;

    // Implements the following CURL command:

    // curl --request POST \
    //   --url https://{yourOktaDomain}/oauth2/default/v1/token \
    //   --header 'accept: application/json' \
    //   --user "client_id:client_secret" \
    //   --header 'cache-control: no-cache' \
    //   --header 'content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
    //   --data 'grant_type=client_credentials&scope=customScope'

    http.put_Login("client_id");
    http.put_Password("client_secret");

    CkHttpRequest req;
    req.put_HttpVerb("POST");
    req.put_Path("/oauth2/default/v1/token");
    req.put_ContentType("application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
    req.AddParam("grant_type","client_credentials");
    req.AddParam("scope","customScope");

    req.AddHeader("accept","application/json");

    CkHttpResponse *resp = http.PostUrlEncoded("https://{yourOktaDomain}/oauth2/default/v1/token",req);
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        strOut.append(http.lastErrorText());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    CkStringBuilder sbResponseBody;
    resp->GetBodySb(sbResponseBody);
    CkJsonObject jResp;
    jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody);
    jResp.put_EmitCompact(false);

    strOut.append("Response Body:");
    strOut.append("\r\n");
    strOut.append(jResp.emit());
    strOut.append("\r\n");

    int respStatusCode = resp->get_StatusCode();
    strOut.append("Response Status Code = ");
    strOut.appendInt(respStatusCode);
    strOut.append("\r\n");
    if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
        strOut.append("Response Header:");
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        strOut.append(resp->header());
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        strOut.append("Failed.");
        strOut.append("\r\n");
        delete resp;
        SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());
        return;
    }

    delete resp;

    // Sample JSON response:
    // (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)

    // {
    //   "access_token": "eyJraWQiO ... B2CnCLj7GRUW3mQ",
    //   "token_type": "Bearer",
    //   "expires_in": 3600,
    //   "scope": "customScope"
    // }

    // Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
    // Use the following online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
    // Generate Parsing Code from JSON

    const char *access_token = jResp.stringOf("access_token");
    const char *token_type = jResp.stringOf("token_type");
    int expires_in = jResp.IntOf("expires_in");
    const char *scope = jResp.stringOf("scope");


    SetDlgItemText(IDC_EDIT1,strOut.getUnicode());

    }