Automatic Token Management for ASP.NET Core and Worker Services 1.0

After a pretty long preview period, I am happy to announce that IdentityModel.AspNetCore 1.0 is now on Nuget.

This library solves a problem that we have with every single OIDC/OAuth client we are creating: token management.

Requesting and using a token is the easy part – managing the token and its lifetime is the hard part. But also boilerplate.

The library helps with access token lifetime management for pure machine to machine communication and user-centric applications with refresh tokens.

For user-centric it provides:

storage abstraction for access and refresh tokens (default implementation using the ASP.NET Core authentication session)
automatic refresh of expired access tokens
refresh token revocation
token lifetime automation for HttpClient

For worker services it provides:

caching abstraction for access tokens (default implementation using IDistributedCache)
automatic renewal of expired access tokens
token lifetime automation for HttpClient

I’ve been holding back with releasing, because I wanted to get some feedback from more people and customers, and I also wanted to make sure it is ready for all of the advanced scenarios I am using for our new Advanced OAuth workshop.

Best part – it also has docs. See here for workers, see here for web applications – and here for some more info on plugging in your own configuration and storage abstractions.

HTH

1 Response to Automatic Token Management for ASP.NET Core and Worker Services 1.0

BritishCanuck says:

May 22, 2020 at 15:16

Thanks for all the hard work on this library. I’m using it all over the place now and it really does simplify the entire token management lifecycle.