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External apps

External Apps

Overview

External Apps - are specific named entity that are developed to create tenant apps. It provides a unique API KEYs functionality to exchange id tokens from tenant federated system for IAM tokens.

For more information about federated system

User stories:

  • I am as a tenant want to talk to Hiiretail APIs from front-end/mobile app.
  • I am as a developer want to get IAM token for standalone/federated user for testing purposes.

Usage

To access Hiiretail APIs from frontend app, you usually have your own federated identity system. External Apps provide an integration from your app to Hiiretail.

  • Create external apps in IAM UI. Example link: https://[tenant-alias].hiiretail.com/iam/external-app

  • Exchange your federated token for IAM token using external app API_KEY. Example