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Hein B.'s avatar
Hein B.
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11 years ago

can't authenticate with javascript

I try to use the datastore API with javascript. This is my Code: <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <meta charse...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

The code I see here should all work once authentication has been started, but I don't see a call to start authentication.

Somewhere (e.g. on a button click) should be a call to client.authenticate(function (error) { ... }); (no { interactive: false }). That will start the authentication flow, and then when the user returns to the page, your existing code should finish the auth process.

For an example, see https://www.dropbox.com/developers/datastore/tutorial/js#linking-accounts.

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