Adding Authentication Support to your API

You can use Auth Extension if your application has a login & signup feature, and your data is protected and only accessible after login.

Authentication is also a crucial part of any API or Backend. In order to add authentication support to our API first we have to create a role for which all authenticated users will belong to. Go to Roles section where we covered this in details. You can not enable Auth without a Role. Let's assume a role named AuthUser is created.

Enable Auth Extension

For this, Got to Settings > Add-Ons then Click on the Authentication module. You will see this drawer pops up from the right. You can configure your authentication module here. Choose an Authentication Type and What role the logged-in user will belong to. Click Enable to add authentication support to your API. To check if authentication module added to your API or not, Go to Content tab and if you can see a model named user then authentication support has successfully added to your API.

Supported Authentication Type

At this moment we only support phone and email based authentication.

Authentication Roles

Roles are very important part of the authentication module. The entire auth module depends on Roles. All the authenticated users will have the permissions of that role that you configure while you add the authentication module.