Hello,
for my company I needed to make use of this feature from our Node.js backend, so here is a reference implementation in JavaScript using Node.js’s cypto and Buffer if anyone is interested:
Note:
For consistency I’m using the same variable values as in the PHP implementation.
Setup your API credentials and SSO secret key
const apiKey = '4fe83002bb5fba8c9a61a65e5b4b0a3cf8233b0e4ccafc85ebd6607abab4651a';
const apiUser = 'system';
const connectSecret = 'jdhb19*Xh3!nu(#k';
Setup the sso parameters
const ssoRecord = new URLSearchParams({
external_id: 1,
email: 'bob@example.com',
username: 'bob',
add_groups: 'eurorack',
require_activation: true,
}).toString();
const ssoPayload = Buffer.from(ssoRecord, 'utf8').toString('base64');
const signature = crypto.createHmac('sha256', connectSecret).update(ssoPayload).digest('hex');
Send the POST request
const updatedUser = await fetch({ // or axios
method: 'POST',
url: 'https://forum.example.com/admin/users/sync_sso',
headers: {
'api-key': apiKey,
'api-user': apiUser,
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
},
body: JSON.stringify({
sso: ssoPayload,
sig: signature,
})
}).then((response) => response.json());