External authentication

[Former Community Member]

Hi,

when trying to run the ExternalAuthentication app from the
cocomo example the following error appears:




Error: error getting ticket: [Event type="error"
bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2]

at
com.adobe.rtc.session.managers::SessionManagerAdobeHostedServices/onTicketError()[C:\work\main\connect\cocomo\src\com\adobe\rtc\session\managers\SessionManagerAdobeHostedServices.as:104]

at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()

at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()

at
com.adobe.rtc.session.sessionClasses::SingleUseTicketService/onComplete()[C:\work\main\connect\cocomo\src\com\adobe\rtc\session\sessionClasses\SingleUseTicketService.as:99]

at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction()

at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent()

at flash.net::URLLoader/onComplete()





Obtaining the authentication key seems to work properly. And
I submit this key as URL-encoded String via flashVars to the SWF.



Thanks

Marc

[Raff_]

What did you use to get the authentication session and
generate the token ? Any particular language ?



And, did you copy the account shared secret from the
dev-portal to your application ?



Can you get a trace of the HTTP requests going from your
client to the server ? Or send us info about your account so that I
can check what's happening server-side ?



(sorry for the many questions but the stack trace doesn't
really tell me much :)

[Former Community Member]

I used the code from SDK/extras/scripts/groovy/cocomo.groovy.





def am = new AccountManager(<ACCOUNT_URL>)

am.login(<ADOBE_DEV_ID>,<PW>)

def session = am.getSession(<ROOM_NAME>)

session.getAuthenticationToken(<SHARED_SECRET>,
ARBITRARY_NAME_STRING, ARBITRARY_ID_STRING,
ARBITRARY_ROLE_STRING)



In flex I use the generated token and firebug shows the
following request:



GET
https://na2.connectnow.acrobat.com/app/ticket?exx=<THE_TICKET>&instance=<MYINSTANCE>/test



Here is the response:


<result>

<status code="error"
subcode="for-input-string:-"test""/>

</result>

[Raff_ · Accepted solution]

Ah! I think I found what the problem is!



You are passing "test" as the role, when it should be a
number (0-100).

I should have made it more explicit in the API (and I'll fix
them for next release) but the value you pass is the numeric value
expected by cocomo (passed as a string, since I am just passing it
as part of the ticket)



I wish the error was more useful (it's the message from a
conversion exception, and I thought I tried that ):



Sorry for the inconvenience...

[Former Community Member]

Great, that fixed it!

btw. Is there any mapping of roles/rights to those number
values?

When using 0 or 1 I get a Permission Exception



Error: MessageManager.createNode : insufficient permissions
to create node



Using 100 and everything works fine.



Thanks for the quick help...

[Former Community Member]

Hi syzygymz,



The idea here is that only UserRoles.OWNER (which does ==
100) can create new CollectionNodes in a room. Most collaboration
components (Chat, SharedWhiteboard, etc) add CollectionNodes to the
room when they are first run, in order to publish and subscribe
data messages. Once a CollectionNode has been added to a room, it's
permanently there, so subsequent users can use it without needing
to be an OWNER.



hope that helps

nigel