BeatLeader Server

Server for the BeatLeader website and Beat Saber mod.

Deployed here: https://api.beatleader.com/

I don't know what I'm doing, so there can be very stupid mistakes!

Description

The main data source for the server are replays. It is operating by the simple rule - no replay, no score.

Development (Windows or macOS)

Local build

To start this thing you need to install several tools:

• Visual Studio 2022
• Docker

For testing use Postman.

After everything is installed:

1. Change working directory to project.
2. dotnet tool install --global dotnet-ef
3. dotnet tool restore
4. dotnet ef database update --context AppContext

5.  sudo docker pull mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest
    sudo docker run -e "ACCEPT_EULA=Y" -e "MSSQL_SA_PASSWORD=SuperStrong!" -p 1433:1433 --name sqlserver1 --hostname sqlserver1 -d mcr.microsoft.com/mssql/server:2022-latest
    sudo docker start sqlserver1
   

6. Open the .sln in Visual Studio and run the server with "IIS Express".

The server should be accessible at https://localhost:44313/

API

There is an automatically generated Swagger documentation available at the following link:

http://api.beatleader.com/swagger/index.html

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Using Oauth2.0 on BeatLeader

BeatLeader Oauth2.0 supports only Authorization Code Grant, it will work only if you have server side as well. First off you need to dm nsgolova on Discord and send him the service information, the icon for the service and the callback endpoint for your website and local development (for example: https://api.example-site.com/beatleader-login and http://localhost:3000/beatleader-login). You will get a client id and client secret.

For this example, we'll use these variables:

• Client ID = exampleID
• Client Secret = exampleSecret
• Callback URL = http://localhost:3000/beatleader-login

Disclaimer! It will be much easier to use a library for that, for example with AspNet.Security.OpenId. There is a C# example here

Now you need to construct a URL for the oauth2. If we use the variables above, the URL should look something like this: https://api.beatleader.com/oauth2/authorize?client_id=exampleID&response_type=code&scope=profile&redirect_uri=http://localhost:3000/beatleader-login.

Note: If you want the server issue also refresh token, you need to add offline_access to scope parameter of oauth2/authorize request. Scopes in OAuth2 Specification are separated by a space, so the parameter should be profile%20offline_access (%20 is a space encoded in the url).

When the person authorizes access to their account information, BeatLeader will redirect the user to your callback URL with a code and iss query parameter.

Let's say that the code we got back is exampleCode.

Example return link: http://localhost:3000/beatleader-login?code=exampleCode&iss=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.beatleader.com%2F.

Now you need to get a token to make a request to identify a user. So now, on your server, you need to send a POST request to the following url: https://api.beatleader.com/oauth2/token. The headers should contain Content-Type of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". And the body of the request needs to contain the following string: grant_type=authorization_code&client_id=exampleID&client_secret=exampleSecret&code=exampleCode&redirect_uri=http://localhost:3000/beatleader-login.

Simplified:

grant_type = authorization_code
client_id = exampleID
client_secret = exampleSecret
code = exampleCode
reidrect_uri = http://localhost:3000/beatleader-login

If the request was successful, you should get a JSON response containing the access token in the access_token field. If your scopes also contained offline_access you will also get a refresh token in the refresh_token field.

{
    "access_token": "eyJ...",
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "expires_in": 3600,
    "scope": "profile offline_access",
    "refresh_token": "eyJ..."
}

THE ACCESS TOKEN IS VALID FOR 3600 seconds and the REFRESH TOKEN IS VALID FOR 14 days

Let's say our access_token is exampleToken.

Now, to identify the user, we have to send a GET request to https://api.beatleader.com/oauth2/identity with a header "Authorization". The content of the Authorization header should be Bearer exampleToken.

If everything was done correctly you should have gotten a JSON response with the user's id and name.

Note: the following flow is only available if you also specified offline_access in scope parameter during authorization.

When the access_token expires you must refresh it. To do so, you must send a POST request to the endpoint https://api.beatleader.com/oauth2/token. The headers should contain Content-Type of "application/x-www-form-urlencoded". And the body of the request needs to contain the following string: grant_type=refresh_token&client_id=exampleID&client_secret=exampleSecret&refresh_token=OLD_REFRESH_TOKEN.

If the request was successful, you should get a JSON response containing the new access token in the access_token field and new refresh token in the refresh_token field. The old tokens will be invalidated, so from then on you must use new ones.