openid-client

openid-client is a server side OpenID Relying Party (RP, Client) implementation for Node.js

Table of Contents

• Implemented specs & features
• Get started
• Usage

Implemented specs & features

The following client/RP features from OpenID Connect/OAuth2.0 specifications are implemented by openid-client.

• OpenID Connect Core 1.0 incorporating errata set 1
  • Authorization Callback
    • Authorization Code Flow
    • Implicit Flow
    • Hybrid Flow
  • UserInfo Request
  • Fetching Distributed Claims
  • Unpacking Aggregated Claims
  • Offline Access / Refresh Token Grant
  • Client Credentials Grant
  • Password Grant
  • Client Authentication
    • client_secret_basic
    • client_secret_post
    • client_secret_jwt
    • private_key_jwt
• OpenID Connect Discovery 1.0 incorporating errata set 1
  • Discovery of OpenID Provider (Issuer) Metadata
• OpenID Connect Dynamic Client Registration 1.0 incorporating errata set 1
  • Dynamic Client Registration request
  • Client initialization via registration client uri
• RFC7009 - OAuth 2.0 Token revocation
  • Client Authenticated request to token revocation
• RFC7662 - OAuth 2.0 Token introspection
  • Client Authenticated request to token introspection

Example

Head over to the example folder to see the library in use. This example is deployed and configured to use an example OpenID Connect Provider here. The provider is using oidc-provider library.

Get started

On the off-chance you want to manage multiple clients for multiple issuers you need to first get an Issuer instance.

via Discovery (recommended)

const Issuer = require('openid-client').Issuer;
Issuer.discover('https://accounts.google.com') // => Promise
  .then(function (googleIssuer) {
    console.log('Discovered issuer %s', googleIssuer);
  });

manually

const Issuer = require('openid-client').Issuer;
const googleIssuer = new Issuer({
  issuer: 'https://accounts.google.com',
  authorization_endpoint: 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth',
  token_endpoint: 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v4/token',
  userinfo_endpoint: 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/userinfo',
  jwks_uri: 'https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v3/certs',
}); // => Issuer
console.log('Set up issuer %s', googleIssuer);

Now you can create your Client.

manually (recommended)

You should provide the following metadata; client_id, client_secret. You can also provide id_token_signed_response_alg (defaults to RS256) and token_endpoint_auth_method (defaults to client_secret_basic);

const client = new googleIssuer.Client({
  client_id: 'zELcpfANLqY7Oqas',
  client_secret: 'TQV5U29k1gHibH5bx1layBo0OSAvAbRT3UYW3EWrSYBB5swxjVfWUa1BS8lqzxG/0v9wruMcrGadany3'
}); // => Client

via registration client uri

Should your oidc provider have provided you with a registration client uri and registration access token you can also have the Client discovered.

new googleIssuer.Client.fromUri(registration_client_uri, registration_access_token) // => Promise
  .then(function (client) {
    console.log('Discovered client %s', client);
  });

Usage

Getting authorization url

client.authorizationUrl({
  redirect_uri: 'https://client.example.com/callback',
  scope: 'openid email',
}); // => String

Processing callback

client.authorizationCallback('https://client.example.com/callback', request.query) // => Promise
  .then(function (tokenSet) {
    console.log('received tokens %j', tokenSet);
  });

Processing callback with state or nonce check

const state = session.state;
const nonce = session.nonce;

client.authorizationCallback('https://client.example.com/callback', request.query, { state, nonce }) // => Promise
  .then(function (tokenSet) {
    console.log('received tokens %j', tokenSet);
  });

Refreshing a token

client.refresh(refreshToken) // => Promise
  .then(function (tokenSet) {
    console.log('refreshed tokens %j', tokenSet);
  });

Tip: accepts TokenSet as well as direct refresh token values;

Revoke a token

client.revoke(token, [tokenTypeHint]) // => Promise
  .then(function (response) {
    console.log('revoked token %s', token, response);
  });

Introspect a token

client.introspect(token, [tokenTypeHint]) // => Promise
  .then(function (response) {
    console.log('token details %j', response);
  });

Fetching userinfo

client.userinfo(accessToken) // => Promise
  .then(function (userinfo) {
    console.log('userinfo %j', userinfo);
  });

Tip: accepts TokenSet as well as direct access token values;

via POST

client.userinfo(accessToken, { verb: 'post' }); // => Promise

auth via query

client.userinfo(accessToken, { via: 'query' }); // => Promise

auth via body

client.userinfo(accessToken, { verb: 'post', via: 'body' }); // => Promise

userinfo also handles (as long as you have the proper metadata configured) responses that are:

• signed
• signed and encrypted (nested JWT)
• just encrypted

Fetching Distributed Claims

let claims = {
  sub: 'userID',
  _claim_names: {
    credit_history: 'src1',
    email: 'src2',
  },
  _claim_sources: {
    src1: { endpoint: 'https://src1.example.com/claims', access_token: 'foobar' },
    src2: { endpoint: 'https://src2.example.com/claims' },
  },
};

client.fetchDistributedClaims(claims, { src2: 'bearer.for.src2' }) // => Promise
  .then(function (output) {
    console.log('claims %j', claims); // ! also modifies original input, does not create a copy
    console.log('output %j', output);
    // removes fetched names and sources and removes _claim_names and _claim_sources members if they
    // are empty
  });
  // when rejected the error will have a property 'src' with the source name it relates to

Unpacking Aggregated Claims

let claims = {
  sub: 'userID',
  _claim_names: {
    credit_history: 'src1',
    email: 'src2',
  },
  _claim_sources: {
    src1: { JWT: 'probably.a.jwt' },
    src2: { JWT: 'probably.another.jwt' },
  },
};

client.unpackAggregatedClaims(claims) // => Promise, autodiscovers JWT issuers, verifies signatures
  .then(function (output) {
    console.log('claims %j', claims); // ! also modifies original input, does not create a copy
    console.log('output %j', output);
    // removes fetched names and sources and removes _claim_names and _claim_sources members if they
    // are empty
  });
  // when rejected the error will have a property 'src' with the source name it relates to

Custom token endpoint grants

Use when the token endpoint also supports client_credentials or password grants;

client.grant({
  grant_type: 'client_credentials'
}); // => Promise

client.grant({
  grant_type: 'password',
  username: 'johndoe',
  password: 'A3ddj3w',
}); // => Promise

Registering new client (via Dynamic Registration)

issuer.Client.register(metadata, [keystore]) // => Promise
  .then(function (client) {
    console.log('Registered client %s, %j', client, client.metadata);
  });

Configuration

Changing HTTP request defaults

Setting defaultHttpOptions on Issuer always merges your passed options with the default. openid-client uses got for http requests with the following default request options

const DEFAULT_HTTP_OPTIONS = {
  followRedirect: false,
  headers: { 'User-Agent': `${pkg.name}/${pkg.version} (${pkg.homepage})` },
  retries: 0,
  timeout: 1500,
};

You can add your own headers, change the user-agent used or change the timeout setting

Issuer.defaultHttpOptions = { timeout: 2500, headers: { 'X-Your-Header': '<whatever>' } };

Confirm your httpOptions by

console.log('httpOptions %j', Issuer.defaultHttpOptions);