Adding a ResourceOwnerPassword client - identityserver4

I need to create a new client for a window app. This app will create (via my own api) a Client in ID4.
Ive used the ConfigurationDbContext in my api to add clients.
When I try to authenticate the client using ResourceOwneerPassword I get an error:
IdentityServer4.AspNetIdentity.ResourceOwnerPasswordValidator | No user found matching username: ...
The documentation for ID4 says to use the Config class and GetClients() etc but only shows how this works for InMemory stores. Im using EF Core. Besides, these clients are added dynamically not statically at startup.
Is there no higher level service than the db context? Do I have to figure out the db structure and add the data myself? Seems very.... non intuitive :/

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Not able to create events using Microsoft Graph SDK

I am trying to create an Event using Microsoft Graph SDK, as following the document #
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/graph/api/user-post-events?view=graph-rest-beta&tabs=csharp
1.Created "authProvider"
2.Created GraphClient with above AuthProvider
3.Creating Event using
The event is not creating also no exception/error is throwing, Could any one help me here?
This is happening because this call is being made with same transactionId frequently. It avoids unnecessary retries on the server.
It is an optional parameter , just comment out this property and try again. It should work.
Note : This identifier specified by a client app for the server , to avoid redundant POST operations in case of client retries to create the same event and also useful when low network connectivity causes the client to time out before receiving a response from the server for the client's prior create-event request.
More info is required here, as the reply from Allen Wu stated. without any details I would focus my efforts on the authprovider piece and azure app registration piece. as the rest of the example is just sending a post request to graph api.
but what is recommended really depends on what type of application you are trying to build. eg. is it a service daemon, a web app, mobile app, desktop app, single page app, etc.

How to protect web client ID in GCP source code

My GAE app publishes some APIs in GCP and uses the following structure:
# Replace the following lines with client IDs obtained from the APIs
# Console or Cloud Console.
WEB_CLIENT_ID = '????????????.apps.googleusercontent.com'
ALLOWED_CLIENT_IDS = [WEB_CLIENT_ID, endpoints.API_EXPLORER_CLIENT_ID]
SCOPES = [endpoints.EMAIL_SCOPE]
#endpoints.api(name=API_NAME,
version=API_VERSION,
description='An API to manage languages',
allowed_client_ids=ALLOWED_CLIENT_IDS,
scopes=SCOPES)
My doubt is if someone picks this source code from my machine or GitHub project. He or she can access the APIs using the discovered web client id.
What’s the best practice in this case?
I acknowledge that the client can expose the ID and someone have access to it. But I believe that is another matter.
There are many ways you can do this. One way is to always check in a default value for the client ID, so that when people check out your code, they have to modify it to deploy it. You can also move the client ID to its own module and not check it in at all, and make the expectation that they create their own module with their own client ID. This avoids having a modified state for a checked in file all of the time.
The client ID itself is not sufficient information to generate a valid token. The cryptography involved will prevent such a person from accessing your API.

How to use generated clientid with Google cloud endpoints for authenticating 3rd party users without redeploying app

In my case we work with other companies which would consume our APIs along with our internal javascript client. I think we need to create a web client id for javascript client. But when exposing APIs externally, is it correct to generate new web client id per company? If so do we have to update clientid each time and redeploy application?
I'm following this documentation and in their example client ids are hardcoded, if I need to give access to new 3rd party users, then I need to generate new client id for them but I'd expect to not redeploy application.
Update: I've created a feature request as per #Alex's suggestion below.
Unfortunately the docs at https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/python/endpoints/auth very specifically say, and I quote,
Because the allowed_client_ids must be specified at build time, you
must rebuild and redeploy your API backend after adding or changing
any client IDs in the authorized list of allowed_client_ids or
audiences
so it appears that your perfectly-reasonable use case is very explicitly not covered at this time.
I recommend you visit said page and enter a feature request via the "Write Feedback" link (around the upper right corner of the page) as well as entering a feature request on the Endpoints component of the App Engine feature tracker, https://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/list?can=2&q=component=Endpoints&colspec=ID%20Type%20Component%20Status%20Stars%20Summary%20Language%20Priority%20Owner%20Log -- we monitor both, but with different processes, so trying both is best.
Sorry to be a bearer of bad news. For now, it seems the only workaround is to distribute to the other companies one of a bunch of client ids generated in advance (you can only change the valid bunch when you re-deploy, sigh) and perhaps add some extra, app-layer authorization check of your own -- exactly the kind of work endpoints should be doing on your behalf:-(.
You can use an asterisk as the client ID, that will allow any client to call it without redeploying your API backend. Not sure if this is a documented feature or not, but it works (at least) with both Python and Java.
#Api(name = "myapi",
version = "v1",
scopes = {"https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email"},
description = "My flashy API",
clientIds = {"*"})
public class MyAPI { ... }

Initialize Database connection in Jersey REST webapp

I want to make database queries in my Jersey REST webapp. The ideal situation would be to find a way where the database connection is initialised once at the first app run. Afterwards I only get the instance of DAOFactory object in my REST class and make the queries in the methods. I am using mysql connector. Is there a way to find a way to do it in Jersey? In JSF it was possible - I just used an application-scoped bean when I run the code. Moreover it would be good if I could access the ServletContext object inside this method cause I would like to use it's getResourceAsStream() method to read the database connection parameters from WEB-INF/dao.properties file. But the 'only once per app initialisation' is the crucial part here.

Unit Testing the Server Interface for a Silverlight-Facebook Application

I have a Silverlight 4 client running on a Facebook page hosted on Google App Engine. It's using gminifb to communicate with the Facebook API. The Silverlight client uses POST calls to the URIs for each method and passes the session information from Facebook with each call.
The project's growing and it would be super-useful if I could set up a unit-testing system to make a variety of the server calls so that when I make changes I can ensure everything else still works. I've worked with nUnit before and I like what I've read of PEX but I'm not sure how to apply them to this situation.
What're the choices for creating a test system for this? Pros/cons of each?
How do I get started setting something like this up?
Solved. I did it as follows:
Created a special user account to be used for testing on the server that bypassed the authentication. Only did this on the test environment by checking a debug flag in that environment's settings. This avoided creating any security hole in the live site (since the same debug flag will be false there.)
Created a C#.NET solution to test each API call. The host project is a console app (no need for a GUI) with three reusable synchronous methods:
SendFormRequest(WebRequest request, Dictionary<string,string> pairs),
GetJsonFromResponse(HttpWebResponse response),
and ResetAccount().
These three methods allow the host project to make HTTP requests on the server and to read the JSON responses.
Wrapped each server API call inside a method call in the host project.
Created an nUnit test project in the solution. Then simply created tests that call each wrapper method in the host project, using different parameters and changing values on the server.
Created a series of tests to verify correct error handling for invalid parameters and data.
It's working perfectly and has already identified a few minor issues that have been found. The result is immensely useful and will check for breaking changes on new deployments.

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