Testing Dropbox using OAuth 2 Implicit Grant flow

In this recipe, we again build directly on the previous one by learning how SoapUI supports the full OAuth 2 Implicit Grant flow. This flow is slightly less complicated than the Authorization Code Grant flow, less secure as it lacks client authentication, and is normally used by browser-based clients.

The example used is exactly the same Dropbox one featured in the previous two recipes. However, the steps here are very short as in the previous recipe's setup, and the concepts will be reused. Meaning that there is far more to understand here than to do!

Getting ready

The SoapUI project DropboxOAuth2 for this recipe is included in the chapter 8 samples.

How to do it...

Given the previous Dropbox test ...

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