Socialid.login.loginConnection

Description

API to automatically log an user given its connection_id.

The connection_id can be retrieved from the RESTful API GET login/info. It's also possible to create a new connection given an user_id, using the RESTful API POST login/apps/:app_id/sign_ins, or given the credentials from any user's social network. See Social Login APIs.

A common use case for this API is when the user session (cookie) in the Social Login has been expired or erased and you want to log the user automatically given you already identified him before via traditional login, for example.

In case of success, this API will also trigger the save behavior of socialid.connectionStorage.

Important: see Social Login Tokens for detailed information about the tokens used by the Social Login and best security practices.

Usage

 socialid.login.loginConnection(connectionId, handler)

Parameters

connectionId	required	User connection identifier.
handler	optional	Callback function to handle the API response.

API Response

data	Always "null". This API does not return data.
status	The API response status. Can be success, if the user has been logged in successfully, or not_found, if there is no connection available with the given connectionId.

Example

Automatically logs an user given its connection_id:

 var handler = function(response) {
    if (response.status == "success") {
       alert("You have been logged in successfully!");
    } else {
       alert("Connection not found. Generate a new connectionId.");
    }
 }
 var appId = 1, connectionId = '1234567890';
 socialid.login.init(appId);
 socialid.login.loginConnection(connectionId, handler);

You can test this parameters in our playground: https://sid-examples.herokuapp.com/social_logins/playground