A simple command line example of how to use the Goodreads OAuth API from Java using the Google OAuth Java package.
Check out this repository, and run mvn compile exec:java in the base directory. You will need to have Maven installed.
Note that the code sample will fail unless you set valid values for GOODREADS_KEY and GOODREADS_SECRET in GoodreadsOAuthSample.java.
This is heavily based on this post by StackOverflow user sqeezer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15194182/examples-for-oauth1-using-google-api-java-oauth
The main difference from the example in the post above is that the Goodreads OAuth API doesn't return an oauth_verifier parameter (also known as "verifier code") after the user authorizes in the browser. According to the OAuth Bible:
On Step 6 if the oauth_verifier has not been set, this is a failed OAuth 1.0a 3-Legged
implementation and probably only requires the oauth_token to be sent.
Rarely seen but they exist.
This can be worked around by doing as described in the code sample in this repo:
- Not doing anything with verifier code
- Setting the signer's tokenSharedSecret to the temporary token's shared secret when retrieving the "real" OAuth token