Layer7 API Management

  • 1.  Question for the CA Mobile Team: MAG Social Login

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Sep 04, 2018 02:42 PM

    I was asked to ask the question here, so a broader audience could either chime in or benefit from the answer provided by our mobile team.

     

    The question is about the MAG Social Login usage in a real-world use case. Let's say that a company is willing to use Facebook and Google through our MAG SDK, to authenticate their users. Those users might be as well customers of the company that built the mobile app. For example, a utility company and the customer has electricity service provided by the same company. How can they match what's coming from the social login platform with something that matters to their mobile app, such as a customerID or something? Is this a matter of changing the user-info OpenID endpoint or is there anything else that has to take place, such as changing some social login policies, request access to some extra social platform user information, etc.

     

    Thanks in advance!



  • 2.  Re: Question for the CA Mobile Team: MAG Social Login

    Posted Sep 06, 2018 05:54 AM

    The social login at registration time will provide an email address and a name - the app will then have to fill out additional profile information by looking up and validating things like the customer ID, then persisting and linking the additional information to that social login.

     

    The social login provider won't have any concept of a utility company customerID ...

     

    dave v.