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Every user needs to authenticate with QuickBlox before using any QuickBlox functionality. When someone connects with an application using QuickBlox, the application needs to obtain a session token which provides temporary secure access to QuickBlox APIs. A session token is an opaque string that identifies a user and an application.

Visit our Key Concepts page to get an overall understanding of the most important QuickBlox concepts.

Before you begin

1. Register a QuickBlox account. This is a matter of a few minutes and you will be able to use this account to build your apps.
2. Configure QuickBlox SDK for your app. Check out our Setup page for more details.

Session token rights

There are different types of session tokens to support different use cases.

Get session

You can check whether you have a session or not.

QB.auth
  .getSession()
  .then(function (session) {
    // handle session
  })
  .catch(function (e) {
    // something went wrong
  });

Log in user

If you have an application session, you can upgrade it to a user session by calling login() method.

QB.auth
  .login({
    login: 'yourlogin',
    password: 'yourpassword'
  })
  .then(function (info) {
    // signed in successfully, handle info as necessary
    // info.user - user information
    // info.session - current session
  })
  .catch(function (e) {
    // handle error
  });

Log out user

If you have a user session, you can downgrade it to an application session by calling logout() method.

QB.auth
  .logout()
  .then(function () {
    // signed out successfully
  })
  .catch(function (e) {
    // handle error
  });

Set existing session

Typically, a session token is stored in SDK after successful login and used for every subsequent API call. However, you may want to obtain and store the session on your server for better security. In this case, you can set the existing session token into SDK using the setSession() method.

const session = {
  applicationId: 76730,
  expirationDate: "2021-02-24T10:00:00+00:00",
  token: "8b75a6c7191285499d890a81df4ee7fe49bc732a",
  userId: 96752798,
};

QB.auth
  .setSession(session)
  .then((result) => {})
  .catch((error) => {});

Set the following fields of the session.