What is the correct authorization to join a channel/bot via JS client?

[zontarian]

Hi, I'm trying to connect to a Bot I've created, using a JS client (so, websockets). This is my first go at it. I'm using as a starting point https://hexdocs.pm/phoenix/js/#phoenix https://github.com/instedd/aida-ui/blob/master/app/javascript/components/ChatClient.jsx

So far I've managed to open the Phoenix socket and connect to it, but when I try to join the channel Iike this

let socket = new Socket('wss://aida.xxxxxx.org/socket');
socket.connect();
let channel = socket.channel('bot:'+botId, {'access_token': accessToken}); //<-- error here

I get

{reason: "unauthorized"}

botId is a number, the one I see in this URL https://aida.xxxxxxxxx.org/b/10/channel (10). While accessToken is the token I've written in the Channel tab of my Bot configuration, under the heading

So, what is the correct authorization? Thanks Walter

[zontarian]

Well..it seems my parameters were wrong. By debugging the chat in the "Behaviour" tab, I discovered

• a uuid for the bot. It's something like ae9c0c65-xxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxx (obfuscated..) so it seems it's not 10
• an access token which is different again, in the same UUID hex form of 16bytes in hex. So it doesn't seem the access token inserted in the channel tab.

With these two parameter my sample connection worked and I was able to join the channel.

Now the question is, how to infer these values from the info on the web site? :) Maybe there is a service to call beforehand..

[macoca]

Closed in favor of https://github.com/instedd/aida/issues/276