The Non-Apple SSO TV Provider Authentication Flow

Description

Objective
How to handle the authentication flow when a non-Apple SSO supported Pay-TV provider (MVPD) is selected from the MVPD Picker?

Environment
iOS/ tvOS

Resolution

Steps
After the user selects an unsupported TV Provider, programmer’s app receives the following callbacks:

  • dismissTvProviderDialog - At this point, programmer should hide Apple’s viewController (it contains the picker).

  • sendTrackingData - This is just an MVPD selection event.

  • status - This contains a dictionary that looks like:

    2018-02-23 13:29:14.228410+0200 APIExplorer-tvos252:11681 {

        errorId = REGCODE;

        expires = 1519387154016;

        level = success;

        message = 6ANC6PH; //SAMPLE_7_DIGIT_CODE}

  • At this point, programmer should present the user with the message contained in this dictionary. In this case, it can be similar to: Please go to network-site/activate and enter the following code: 6ANC6PH.

  • During this time, the SDK polls Adobe servers for the status of the above mentioned registration code. Once the user uses that registration code to authenticate, the SDK gets a 200 status code from Adobe servers and the next callback is fired.

  • setAuthenticationStatus - If the status is 1, the authentication was successful.

  • sendTrackingData - This is just an authentication detection event.



Additional information


More on: http://tve.helpdocsonline.com/ios-integration-cookbook-v2

The tvOS app crashes if the setRequestor is not handled correctly, as for tvOS programmer also provides the public key and the secret. See Clientless documentation for details.

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