reblocks-auth
2025-06-22
A system to add an authentication to the Reblocks based web-site.
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reblocks-auth - A system to add an authentication to the Reblocks based web-site.
REBLOCKS-AUTH ASDF System Details
- Description: A system to add an authentication to the Reblocks based web-site.
- Licence: Unlicense
- Author: Alexander Artemenko svetlyak.40wt@gmail.com
- Homepage: https://40ants.com/reblocks-auth/
- Bug tracker: https://github.com/40ants/reblocks-auth/issues
- Source control: GIT
- Depends on: alexandria, cl-strings, dexador, jonathan, local-time, log4cl, mailgun, mito, quri, reblocks, reblocks-lass, reblocks-ui, secret-values, serapeum, uuid, yason
Reblocks-auth is a system for adding authentication for your Reblocks application. It allows users to login using multiple ways. Right now GitHub is only supported but the list will be extended.
This system uses Mito as a storage to store data about users and their data from service providers. Each user has a unique nickname and an optional email. Also, one or more identity providers can be bound to each user account.
Installation
You can install this library from Quicklisp, but you want to receive updates quickly, then install it from Ultralisp.org:
(ql-dist:install-dist "http://dist.ultralisp.org/"
                      :prompt nil)
(ql:quickload :reblocks-auth)
Example App
I've made an example application to demonstrate how does reblocks-auth system work.
To start this example application, run this code in the REPL:
(asdf:load-system :reblocks-auth-example)
(reblocks-auth-example/server:start :port 8080)
When you'll open the http://localhost:8080/ you will see this simple website:

Usage
This system provides a way for user authentifications. Each user is represented in the database
using reblocks-auth/models:user model user can be bound to one or more "social profiles" -
reblocks-auth/models:social-profile. For example, if user logged in via GitHub, then
database will store one "user" record and one "social-profile" record. Each social profile
can hold additional information in it's metadata slot.
To use this system, you have to define two routes which will be responsible for login and logout.
On each route you have to render either reblocks-auth:login-processor or reblocks-auth:logout-processor widgets.
Usually you can define your routes like this (reblocks-navigation-widget:defroutes is used here):
(defroutes routes
    ("/" (make-page-frame
          (make-landing-page)))
  ("/login"
   (make-page-frame
    (reblocks-auth:make-login-processor)))
  ("/logout"
   (make-page-frame
    (reblocks-auth:make-logout-processor))))
This code will render a set up buttons to login through enabled service providers.
Enabled service providers are listed in reblocks-auth:*enabled-services* variable.
Login processor does two things:
- renders buttons for enabled service providers calling reblocks-auth/button:rendergeneric-function.
- service processor is executed when user clicks a "login" button. For example GitHub processor redirects to https://github.com/login/oauth/authorize
- when user comes back to /login page, service processor gets or creates entries in the database and stores current user in the session.
- after this, any code can retrieve current user by a call to reblocks-auth/models:get-current-user.
Logout processor renders a "logout" button and when user clicks on it, removes user from the current session.
API
REBLOCKS-AUTH/AUTH
package reblocks-auth/auth
Generics
generic-function reblocks-auth/auth:authenticate service &rest params &key code
Called when user had authenticated in the service and returned to our site.
All GET arguments are collected into a plist and passed as params.
Should return two values a user and a flag denotifing if user was just created.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/BUTTON
package reblocks-auth/button
Generics
generic-function reblocks-auth/button:render service &key retpath
Renders a button for given service. Service should be a keyword like :github or :facebook.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/CONDITIONS
package reblocks-auth/conditions
Classes
UNABLE-TO-AUTHENTICATE
condition reblocks-auth/conditions:unable-to-authenticate ()
Readers
reader reblocks-auth/conditions:get-message (unable-to-authenticate) (:message)
reader reblocks-auth/conditions:get-reason (unable-to-authenticate) (:reason = 'nil)
REBLOCKS-AUTH/CORE
package reblocks-auth/core
Classes
LOGIN-PROCESSOR
class reblocks-auth/core:login-processor (widget)
This widget should be rendered to process user's login.
LOGOUT-PROCESSOR
class reblocks-auth/core:logout-processor (widget)
This widget should be rendered to process user's logout.
Generics
generic-function reblocks-auth/core:render-login-page app &key retpath
By default, renders a list of buttons for each allowed authentication method.
Functions
function reblocks-auth/core:make-login-processor
function reblocks-auth/core:make-logout-processor
function reblocks-auth/core:render-buttons &key retpath
Renders a row of buttons for enabled service providers.
Optionally you can specify RETPATH argument with an URI to return user
after login.
Variables
variable reblocks-auth/core:*allow-new-accounts-creation* t
When True, a new account will be created. Otherwise only already existing users can log in.
variable reblocks-auth/core:*enabled-services* (:github)
Set this variable to limit a services available to login through.
variable reblocks-auth/core:*login-hooks* nil
Append a funcallable handlers which accept single argument - logged user.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/ERRORS
package reblocks-auth/errors
Classes
NICKNAME-IS-NOT-AVAILABLE
condition reblocks-auth/errors:nickname-is-not-available (error)
Signalled when there is already a user with given nickname.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/GITHUB
package reblocks-auth/github
Functions
function reblocks-auth/github:get-scopes
Returns current user's scopes.
function reblocks-auth/github:get-token
Returns current user's GitHub token.
function reblocks-auth/github:render-button &KEY (CLASS "button small") (SCOPES *DEFAULT-SCOPES*) (TEXT "Grant permissions") (RETPATH (GET-URI))
Renders a button to request more scopes.
Variables
variable reblocks-auth/github:*client-id* nil
OAuth client id
variable reblocks-auth/github:*default-scopes* ("user:email")
A listo of default scopes to request from GitHub.
variable reblocks-auth/github:*secret* nil
OAuth secret. It might be a string or secret-values:secret-value.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/MODELS
package reblocks-auth/models
Classes
SOCIAL-PROFILE
class reblocks-auth/models:social-profile (serial-pk-mixin dao-class record-timestamps-mixin)
Represents a User's link to a social service. User can be bound to multiple social services.
Readers
reader reblocks-auth/models:profile-metadata (social-profile) (:metadata :params)
reader reblocks-auth/models:profile-service (social-profile) (:service)
reader reblocks-auth/models:profile-service-user-id (social-profile) (:service-user-id)
[reader] reblocks-auth/models:profile-user (social-profile) (:user)
A user instance, bound to the social-profile.
Accessors
accessor reblocks-auth/models:profile-metadata (social-profile) (:metadata :params)
USER
class reblocks-auth/models:user (serial-pk-mixin dao-class record-timestamps-mixin)
This class stores basic information about user - it's nickname and email.
Additional information is stored inside social-profile instances.
Readers
reader reblocks-auth/models:get-email (user) (:email = nil)
reader reblocks-auth/models:get-nickname (user) (:nickname)
Functions
function reblocks-auth/models:anonymous-p user
function reblocks-auth/models:change-email user email
function reblocks-auth/models:change-nickname new-nickname
Changes nickname of the current user.
function reblocks-auth/models:create-social-user service service-user-id &rest metadata &key email
function reblocks-auth/models:find-social-user service service-user-id
function reblocks-auth/models:get-all-users
function reblocks-auth/models:get-current-user
Returns current user or NIL.
function reblocks-auth/models:get-user-by-email email
Returns a user with given email.
function reblocks-auth/models:get-user-by-nickname nickname
Returns a user with given email.
function reblocks-auth/models:user-social-profiles user
Returns a list of social profiles, bound to the user.
Variables
variable reblocks-auth/models:*user-class* user
Allows to redefine a model, for users to be created by the reblocks-auth.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/PROVIDERS/EMAIL/MAILGUN
package reblocks-auth/providers/email/mailgun
Macros
macro reblocks-auth/providers/email/mailgun:define-code-sender NAME (FROM-EMAIL URL-VAR &KEY (SUBJECT "Authentication code")) &BODY HTML-TEMPLATE-BODY
REBLOCKS-AUTH/PROVIDERS/EMAIL/MODELS
package reblocks-auth/providers/email/models
Classes
REGISTRATION-CODE
class reblocks-auth/providers/email/models:registration-code (serial-pk-mixin dao-class record-timestamps-mixin)
This model stores a code sent to an email for signup or log in.
Readers
reader reblocks-auth/providers/email/models:registration-code (registration-code) (:code)
reader reblocks-auth/providers/email/models:registration-email (registration-code) (:email)
User's email.
reader reblocks-auth/providers/email/models:valid-until (registration-code) (:valid-until)
Expiration time.
Functions
function reblocks-auth/providers/email/models:send-code email &key retpath send-callback
Usually you should define a global callback using
reblocks-auth/providers/email/mailgun:define-code-sender macro,
but you can provide an alternative function to handle
email sending.
Variables
variable reblocks-auth/providers/email/models:*send-code-callback* -unbound-
Set this variable to a function of one argument of class registration-code.
It should send a registration code using template, suitable for your website.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/PROVIDERS/EMAIL/PROCESSING
package reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing
Classes
REQUEST-CODE-FORM
class reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:request-code-form (widget)
Readers
reader reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:retpath (request-code-form) (:retpath)
reader reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:sent (request-code-form) (= nil)
Accessors
accessor reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:sent (request-code-form) (= nil)
Generics
generic-function reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:form-css-classes widget
generic-function reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:render-email-input widget
generic-function reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:render-sent-message widget
generic-function reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:render-submit-button widget
Variables
variable reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:*recaptcha-secret-key* nil
Set this variable to a secret key, generated by Google reCaptcha.
variable reblocks-auth/providers/email/processing:*recaptcha-site-key* nil
Set this variable to a site key, generated by Google reCaptcha.
REBLOCKS-AUTH/PROVIDERS/EMAIL/RESEND
package reblocks-auth/providers/email/resend
Functions
function reblocks-auth/providers/email/resend:make-code-sender thunk &key base-uri
Makes a function which will prepare params and call THUNK function with email and URL.
Usually you don't need to call this function directly and you can use just define-code-sender macro.
Macros
macro reblocks-auth/providers/email/resend:define-code-sender NAME (FROM-EMAIL URL-VAR &KEY (SUBJECT "Authentication code")) &BODY HTML-TEMPLATE-BODY
Roadmap
- Add support for authentication by a link sent to the email.
- Add ability to bind multiple service providers to a single user.