External authentication

[fspugna]

Hi, I want to add a chat in my React Native app but I have not clear how to implement the External Authentication.

What I understood is this:

1. User connect to my backend and get a token
2. then I should call https://api.connectycube.com/login in POST with this params:
   • login = token received from my backend
   • password = random value for validation
3. login should return a connecty cube token that I can finally use for initialize ( init method that accept app_id and this token I received from login api)

I am stuck at step 2. I get an error 403. If I test with Postman I get "errors": [ "Token is required" ]

What token is required?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[natalialuzuriaga]

Hi there,

I am getting the same error as well. Any guidance would be much appreciated!

[DaveLomber]

Basically the solution is pretty simple

In order to call any ConnectyCube API (except 'createSession') - you need a ConnectyCube Session token which can be created using https://api.connectycube.com/session in POST

So the flow should be like this:

1. User connect to external backend and get a token
2. Then call https://api.connectycube.com/session in POST and create an anonymous session
3. Then - call https://api.connectycube.com/login in POST with this params: login = token received from backend password = random value for validation

So the logs request will upgrade the ConnectyCube Session token from step2 and make it user-aware.

Then all the further calls to AOI should just work