I need to get the user's extra information from social accounts like Facebook and Google+. When I first read about Azure Mobile Services I thought it to be the holy grail of social authentication. Well, after a full week of hair pulling I'm starting to reconsider my first impression. It does authenticate as easily as it could possibly do. I configured Google+ and FB to work with Azure, configured Azure to use the key/secret from each provider and it all just worked. I was able to login perfectly. The problem started when I tried to get information from the logged user, which I honestly think is basic!
Azure Mobile Services returns the UserId and a Token that you can not use to request the extra info on the selected provider. So even if I were to create a second request using FB's graph API for instance, that wouldn't work (I've tried!). That token is Azure's own token. So I found out from several Carlos Figueira (SE at Azure) posts that I should customize my Azure script, make a request to Azure and then I'd be able to get it working.
I've also read several posts from Carlos Figueira on how to implement that extra functionality and even though that was not what I was looking for (customizing the server) I decided to work with that. But my return type is a MobileServiceUser and that type only has 2 properties: UserId and MobileServiceAuthenticationToken. So even after adding the server script from Carlos I couldn't retrieve the extra information from my Xamarin App.
I've read a lot of things, researched a lot and couldn't find an answer =/ By the way this is not the answer:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29884219/how-to-get-user-name-email-etc-from-mobileserviceuser
Did anyone manage to make it work?
PS: I'm not posting any code here because it's working. If you think checking some part of my code would help decipher the problem just let me know.
Thanks in advance!