Firebase

(since 6.0.3)

4WS.Platform EE support Firebase Authentication for mobile applications.

If you want to use this type of authentication you must define some parameters:

In Administration --> Global Parameters --> Firebase group

You must set the JSON Service Account of Firebase project in base64 (you can get this file from the firebase console) and set the company-site for users creation.

For user privacy, you can decide to hide the users data with "Anonymize users data" parameter.

Example:

In SSO group you must set the authentication chain (you can specify this for all active applications or you can set this in Application --> Application Detail --> Parameters --> SSO and it's valid only for one application)

the authentication class for Firebase

and the list of attributes to mapping the Firebase user to the 4WS.Platform user (this mapping used for permissions management)

To complete user creation in 4WS.Platform you need to specify in Permissions group

In this case the user will be create with "APP" role after Firebase authentication is ok.

The last parameter set the database for user synchronization in Security Sync group

Now you can use The Firebase authentication in your application mobile with 4WS.Platform.

In the login request you must send the Firebase username (uid) and the valid token.

Example

http://localhost:8080/wag/login?applicationId=XXX&appId=XXX&companyId=AAAAA&siteId=100&password=null&languageId=IT&autoLogin=true&username=FIREBASE_UID&ssoToken=FIREBASE_TOKEN

In the after requests you can send only username and token

http://localhost:8080/wag/api?cmd=ALIAS_REQUEST&applicationId=XXX&appId=XXX&username=FIREBASE_UID&restfulToken=FIREBASE_TOKEN

If the token is no longer valid the client must revalidate the authentication on firebase and recall the login with the new token.