Authentication Tutorial

Each Appo can have an authentication mechanism. You can create a web service and check username and password with your database and return some data in JSON Web Token (JWT) payload.

1- To enable authentication in a page just check the ‘Required Login’ checkbox in that page properties tab.

2- Click on ‘Login’ button above the designer window and paste your web service URL. Other fields are optional and you can use them for customization of login form.

3- Let’s create a fake login service. Go to ‘Services’, use the login template and create a service. Click on fake data.

4- In ‘Structure’ section keep inputs and don’t change them. In JWT tab you can add JSON fields. Add profileId .These fields are return back to user after logging in.

5- In ‘Fake Data’ click ‘New Fake Data’ button, in ‘Inputs’ define username and password, In ‘Results’ define JWT field’s data and finally click ‘Add’ button.

6- You can use this web service in Login settings and use the result data with this code: @{login.profileId} profileId is the field name of JWT. You can also use @{login.loggedin} to check if the user is authenticated or not.

7- After Logging In, All requests to your sever contains a JWT in header, This JWT is the one you have sent to user after successful authentication.The JWT contains the simple JSON object.