Authorization process in detail
To initialize your Beefree application, call the endpoint shown in the sample code below with your Client ID and Client Secret, which are available in the application details page of the Beefree SDK Console (if you don’t have an account, sign up).
The Beefree platform uses OAuth2 as the authorization framework.
POST /apiauth HTTP/1.1
Host: auth.getbee.io
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
client_id=YOUR_CLIENT_ID&client_secret=YOUR_CLIENT_SECRET
grant_typeparameter, which was mandatory in the past, can now be omitted.
If the authentication is successful, the Beefree platform’s authorization service will return a temporary access token to the client application. The token can then be passed by the client application to the Beefree resource server in order to start the session.
The token expires after 5 minutes for security reasons. An expired token can be refreshed for 7 days without re-authenticating the application. Once the application has started communicating with the Beefree resource server, the plugin will take care of refreshing the token automatically, as long as someone is actively using the editor, with a heartbeat every 28 minutes.
Here is an example of how to call the Beefree platform endpoint, obtain a token and then start the plugin:
var req = new XMLHttpRequest();
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (req.readyState === 4 && req.status === 200) {
// Obtain token
var token = req.responseText;
// Call create method and pass token and beeConfig to obtain an instance of BEE Plugin
BeePlugin.create(token, beeConfig, function(beePluginInstance) {
// Call start method of bee plugin instance
beePluginInstance.start(template); // template is the json to be loaded in BEE
});
}
};
req.open(
'POST', // Method
'/token', // The server side endpoint that calls BEE REST auth endpoint
false // sync request
);
You can call the authorization endpoint clientside or serverside: just make sure to use HTTPS if your call is from a web client.
Once you obtain the token, configuration parameters are passed to your Beefree application to set up the options you wish to use (e.g. setting your email editor’s language to “Spanish”).
Then, you can start your Beefree application and display the builder.