Authentication

To authenticate a user you need to create a user object and then pass it to the login function. The User object has the following properties:

parameters	description
userId	Unique ID for the user
displayName	Display name of the user. Agents will identify users by this display name
email	Email ID of logged in user
password	User's password
imageLink	This image will be visible to the user
authenticationTypeId	Pass 1 for authentication from kommunicate
APP_ID	Pass your APP_ID here
deviceApnsType	0 for development, 1 for release

There are 2 ways to Login

1. Visitors

Whenever users come to your app and starts the chat, you can assign them a random ID. This behaviour is best suited for anonymous user. Add below function to generate a random userId:

 public getRandomId() : string {
    var text = "";
    var possible = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789";
    for (var i = 0; i < 32; i++)
        text += possible.charAt(Math.floor(Math.random() * possible.length));
    return text;
}

Then create the User object using random Id:

 var kmUser = {
      'userId' : this.getRandomId(),
      'applicationId' : '<APP_ID>',  //replace this with your APP_ID from Applozic Dashboard
      'deviceApnsType' : 0    //Set 0 for Development and 1 for Distribution (Release)
      };

Then call the login function from the plugin:

Cordova

If you are using native Cordova:

kommunicate.login(kmUser, function(response) {
        //login success
    }, function(response) {
       //login failed
    });

Ionic

If you are using the ionic framework:

this.kommunicate.login(kmUser)
    .then((response : any) => {
        //login success
    })
    .catch((error : any) => {
       //login failed
    });

2. Logged in Users

If the user is already logged in to your app, then pass the user details to create a user object:

    var kmUser = {
        'userId' : this.userId,   //Replace it with the userId of the logged in user
        'password' : this.password,  //Put password here
        'authenticationTypeId' : 1,
        'imageLink' : <image-link-for-user>,
        'applicationId' : '<APP_ID>',  //replace this with your APP_ID from Applozic Dashboard
        'deviceApnsType' : 0    //Set 0 for Development and 1 for Distribution (Release)
    };

Then call the login function from the plugin:

Cordova

If you are using native Cordova:

kommunicate.login(kmUser, function(response) {
        //login success
    }, function(response) {
       //login failed
    });

Ionic

If you are using the ionic framework:

this.kommunicate.login(kmUser)
    .then((response : any) => {
        //login success
    })
    .catch((error : any) => {
       //login failed
    });

You can check if the user is logged in or not by calling the isLoggedIn() function from the plugin:

Cordova

If you are using native Cordova:

 kommunicate.isLoggedIn((response) => {
      if(response === "true"){
        //The user is logged in, you can directly launch the chat here
      }else{
        //User is not logged in, maybe you need to call login function here
      }
    });

Ionic

If you are using the ionic framework:

this.kommunicate.isLoggedIn()
    .then((response : any) => {
      if(response == "true") {
        //The user is logged in, you can directly launch the chat here
      } else {
        //User is not logged in, maybe you need to call login function here
      }
    });