[SDK] SDK V2, no API for login with login type parameter - Cannot login.

[isabeD]

Description

Our Matrix environment / synapse supports "proprietary" login flow.
Requesting from app the list of loginFlow supported types returns a list like this :
m.login.password
com.xx.login.istra
...

Using SDK V2, no API permit to add the login type "com.xx.login.istra" as parameter.
That prevent our android app to login using regular API authenticationService / Wizard which always returns an error code "FORBIDDEN".
As workaround, app perform login out of Matrix SDK - app send an HTTP request + appropriate json adding type = com.xx.login.istra. That's not good, we do not mesure very well the side effects of that.

[bmarty]

We can add a method in the interface LoginWizard as below:

    /**
     * Login to the homeserver by sending a custom JsonDict.
     * The data should contain at least one entry "type" with a String value.
     */
    suspend fun loginCustom(data: JsonDict): Session

Will this fully suit your needs?

[isabeD]

Hi, Thanks for your quick answer.

According your proposal app should call :
loginCustomData(myjsonDict)

with that kind of jsonDict key / values :
type : com.xx.login.istra
initial_device_display_name : "mydevice"
password: "mypwd"
user: "@XX"

SDK execute request https://homeserver/_matrix/client/r0/login + payload issued from jsonDict
... Matrix do its SDK stuffs.
Then Matrix SDK returns a session -if login ok- If I'm correct that fit our needs!

[bmarty]

I think we have a plan then! I add the issue to the next milestone, so this should be available in the SDK 1.3.5.

[bmarty]

One confirmation please :

The request https://homeserver/_matrix/client/r0/login + payload issued from jsonDict will return regular Credentials?

[isabeD]

yes. here a sample of synapse login's json response :
access_token: "xx"
device_id: "xx"
home_server: "fqdn server"
user_id: "@x"
well_known: {m.homeserver: {base_url: "urlserver"}}
m.homeserver: {base_url: "urlserver"}

[bmarty]

Will be part of SDK 1.3.7 and up