REST API Log in using access_token?

[Bruce]

All,

I have the Login code working, and if successful, I store the access_token in local storage. I was wondering if there is a way using the REST API to log in a user using the stored access_token. I want to allow the user to go straight through to the app if their token hasn't expired, and take them to the login page if it has, and I don't want to store their credentials.

Thanks,

Brruce

[Anton Dobrev]

Hi Bruce,

To check whether the user is logged in use the /me endpoint before any business critical app request:

You can reuse the access token you have locally when making the requests to the REST API. Just assign it to an Authorization header:

Authorization: "bearer " + localStorage.getItem(accessTokenKeyName);

I hope that this helps.

Regards,
Anton Dobrev
Telerik