What is the Robin User Token (RUT)?
Just like in your company’s database, every employee has a unique identifier; in many cases, this identifier is referred to as an ID — the same logic is applied to Robin but with a different name. The Robin User Token (RUT) is used to identify every user that dispatches or receives messages and events in your Robin App.
The Robin User Token must be used for any messaging operation on Robin, as it is a means of identification for any user. Sending messages with an invalid token or without a token would result in a “No Identity” record of your Robin Dashboard. The RUT also helps with the visibility of individual and group messaging activities.
The RUT is a necessary prerequisite to building any Robin use case; any application of Robin might not function to its full potential without a valid RUT.
Recall that a RUT is synonymous with an ID field in a database; hence, the RUT is mapped to metadata for a unique user; this metadata is used to create the RUT. The metadata is a key-value pair (an object) that can contain as much information about a user.
Creating a valid RUT is easy; it can be done on the server (back-end) or on the client side (front-end).
We advise that RUTs are created for each user on the server upon successful registration.
const robin = new Robin('YOUR_API_KEY', true)
const response = await robin.**createUserToken**({
meta_data: {
username: 'USER_NAME',
},
});
robin := Robin{ Secret: "YOUR_API_KEY", Tls: true,}
token, err := robin.**CreateUserToken**(
UserToken{
MetaData: map[string]interface{}{
"name": "USER_NAME",
}
}
)
Map<String, dynamic> metadata = {
"name": "USER_NAME"
};
final String robinToken = await RobinCore.**createUserToken**("YOUR_API_KEY", metaData);
robin = Robin("YOUR_API_KEY", True)
response = robin.**create_user_token**(data={
"meta_data":{
"name": "USER_NAME",
}
})
To install Robin packages and libraries referenced in the code snippets above, check out Samples and Resources
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