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.. _-authenticateOAuth2-:
authenticateOAuth2
==================
Signature
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.. includecode:: /../../akka-http/src/main/scala/akka/http/scaladsl/server/directives/SecurityDirectives.scala#authenticator
.. includecode2:: /../../akka-http/src/main/scala/akka/http/scaladsl/server/directives/SecurityDirectives.scala
:snippet: authenticateOAuth2
Description
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Wraps the inner route with OAuth Bearer Token authentication support using a given ``AuthenticatorPF[T]``
Provides support for extracting the so-called "*Bearer Token*" from the :class:`Authorization` HTTP Header,
which is used to initiate an OAuth2 authorization.
.. warning::
This directive does not implement the complete OAuth2 protocol, but instead enables implementing it,
by extracting the needed token from the HTTP headers.
Given a function returning ``Some[T]`` upon successful authentication and ``None`` otherwise,
respectively applies the inner route or rejects the request with a :class:`AuthenticationFailedRejection` rejection,
which by default is mapped to an ``401 Unauthorized`` response.
Longer-running authentication tasks (like looking up credentials in a database) should use the :ref:`-authenticateOAuth2Async-`
variant of this directive which allows it to run without blocking routing layer of Akka HTTP, freeing it for other requests.
See :ref:`credentials-and-timing-attacks-scala` for details about verifying the secret.
For more information on how OAuth2 works see `RFC 6750`_.
.. _RFC 6750: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750
Example
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Usage in code is exactly the same as :ref:`-authenticateBasic-`,
with the difference that one must validate the token as OAuth2 dictates (which is currently not part of Akka HTTP itself).