create Stackoverflow block

[felixhaeberle]

come up with an design and create Stackoverflow block

[NiklasBuchfink]

I try to kickstart this implementation and did an initial setup based on the documentation.

First some initial information:

• Stage access for Stack Exchange Apps are in Notion
• Documentation
• The scope is set to "no_expiry" - access_token's with this scope do not expire so that we don't have to implement the refresh tokens
• Testing environment for routes
• Rate Limits are 10.000 requests per day per user with access_token

The biggest problem challange is to test this. I would try it with ngrok, a command line tool that creates a public localhost.
Another solution might be a Domain that points to 127.0.0 or 127.0.0/service/authenticated as described in this stackoverflow solutions. We can test it with lvh.me or we set up ou own domain like flex.dev. Than use this domain for testing with an extra Stack Exchange application.

Other ToDos:

• Test Auth + Token Flow
• Add Store Icon / Image
• Design Block with profile link, interests, user stats, my top answers list by votes

[felixhaeberle]

nice 👍 please implement refresh token if possible.

[NiklasBuchfink]

There is no refresh token implementation in the documentation.

But I can provide the .env variables here

[felixhaeberle]

really 😄 weird. oauth official flow is with redirect token

[NilsJacobsen]

As far as I can see, stack overflow is not supporting the pkce flow. When you ask for the access token you get the access token as a string parameter to your redirecting url. No auth code that you can exchange for the token like GitHub, gitlab etc are doing it. I wonder if we should write exceptions here or not? The main problem right now is that the pollForResponse is never getting the response with the authcode. But this is handled in the connector and is unsiversal for every oAuth. What do you think?