Support for authentication via OAuth / OpenID Connect

This has been discussed in #59 but with less scope than outlined below.

The Insomina REST client has native support for authenticating with the GraphQL server via OAuth 2.0, and therefore also OpenID Connect. It will also (automatically) refresh an access token if it has expired.

This has a number of advantages:

• The process of acquiring an access / refresh token is baked into the client, and only requires the user to enter authentication details - right now, an access token needs to be acquired elsewhere, and added to each request via a Authorisation header.
• A GraphQL server which issues short-lived access tokens can be seemlessly supported by automatically refreshing any access token that has expired.

Could GraphiQL support this?

I’d love to be able to use GraphiQL but the second point in particular is a dealbreaker for me. As it currently stands, access tokens on my GraphQL server expire after 60 mins, and so every hour I would need to manually acquire an access token and set it in GraphiQL to continue using it.

[acao]

https://github.com/graphql/graphiql/issues/1771#issuecomment-765001323 to get you started

this project is mostly used by customized frameworks, and by projects like insomnia who use our LSP libraries. I’m pretty much the only recurring contributor, so there is no time to support such a thing. I’m available for paid consulting if you need more help with it, but most frontend devs can figure this one out it seems! i’ve worked at a handful of companies where they implemented an auth flow with GraphiQL themselves.

[fiznool]

No problem, thank you for taking the time to reply and point me in the right direction. 🙂