How to integrate the Next Identity Hosted Journeys login workflow

User login with the hosted screens is one of the most straightforward workflows when working on your Next Identity Hosted Journeys integration.

In this journey, the user will be presented with an input screen asking for a primary identifier (email address or mobile phone number, depending on your specific configuration) and will be asked to input a password if applicable.

This flow begins with your application directing users to the hosted /authorize endpoint.

With an active session in the browser

When the end user requests Next Identity Journeys via the /authorize endpoint, the hosted screen will not present the registration screen if the user already has an active session in the browser. Instead, the end user will be immediately redirected back to the application with an authorization code.

Without an active session in the browser

If the end user does not have an existing browser-based session, the login screen will be displayed. On this login screen, if your application has been configured to allow self-registration, the user will be shown the option to create a new account.

Integration

The login request consists of the base domain + the endpoint (/authorize) + parameters. Available parameters are listed below the example.

https://id.eu.nextreason.com/
authorize?
redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fappauth-js.dev.nextreason.cloud%2Fapp%2Fredirect.html
&client_id=pnxf3up7tae8mbhzb9dbpbcmfbx32qjp
&response_type=code
&state=SWMsxiZSaa
&scope=openid
&nonce=ztUpfEKkX7HcpASapzJDSFsBoFBbvRkNdDGEVj5TDrG58e7MwS
&ui_locales=en-US
&code_challenge=Pr5KkBc1CqsjVH5Izsx-CXu1HEOrtNLBPJU20-MMGWw
&code_challenge_method=S256

Required Parameters

The following parameters must be included on every /authorize request.

ParameterDescription
redirect_uriConfigures the URL the user is redirected after a successful authentication.

Important note: this URL must be included in the safe list configuration. Contact your Next Reason integration consultant to add URLs to this list.
client_idThe ID used to authenticate the API call. This client ID is tied to your specific configurations and rules. Contact your Next Reason integration consultant if you do not know your client ID.
response_typeValue that determines the authorization processing flow to be used, including what parameters are returned from the endpoints. The only acceptable parameter is: code.
stateThis state parameter is constructed by your application and included in the call to the hosted Next Identity service. It will remain unchanged and will be passed back to your application when the screen is redirected back. It is intended for use by your application to track user state. It should be an opaque value used to maintain state between the request and the callback.

Typically for applications, Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF, XSRF) mitigation is done by cryptographically binding the value of this parameter with a browser cookie. This value is required on every call, but the hosted service does not use this value in any way, it is solely for use by the application.

Doing so, the application can check and evaluate the value of the state parameter if it is correct or meets a specified criteria then perform expected actions or user journeys on the application-side.
scopeOpenID Connect requests must contain the OpenID scope value. If the OpenID scope value is not present, the behavior is entirely unspecified. Other scope values may be present. Scope values used that are not understood by an implementation should be ignored. The "openid" default value will be used if no specific scope value is known. Other scope values can be added. For multiple scopes, separate them with spaces: scope1 scope2. When requesting the /authorize endpoint, you can specify the desired scopes using the scope parameter. To pass multiple scopes, separate them with spaces, like so: scope1 scope2. When making this request in a browser, spaces will be URL-encoded, resulting in a format like scope1%20scope2.

Optional Parameters

The following parameters are optional.

ParameterDescription
promptSpace delimited, case sensitive list of ASCII string values that specifies whether the Authorization Server prompts the End-User for reauthentication and consent. The defined values are:

none
The Authorization Server must not display any authentication or consent user interface pages. An error is returned if an user is not already authenticated or the client does not have pre-configured consent for the requested claims or does not fulfill other conditions for processing the request. This can be used as a method to check for existing authentication and/or consent.

login
The Authorization Server should prompt the user for reauthentication. If it cannot reauthenticate the user, it must return an error, typically login_required.
nonceString value used to associate a client session with an ID token and to mitigate replay attacks. The value is passed through unmodified from the Authentication Request to the ID Token. Sufficient entropy must be present in the nonce values used to prevent attackers from guessing values.
ui_localesSet the language to be displayed in the screen. Session cookie will save the locale setting sent for the first time, if this parameter is not present the latest language saved will be used to display the screen. It allows multiple locales and in case there's no configuration for the first one, it searches for the second one and so on.
Since the ui_locales parameter is optional and will use the default_locale on settings if no value is present.

See Localization for list of supported locales and the accepted values.

The default country flag during mobile login or when changing the mobile number will be determined by the ui_locales in the query string parameters, if the mobile_query_default_flag is set in the configuration settings. If not, it will fall back to the mobile_default_country, then to the first value in the mobile_flag_countries setting, and finally to the default_locale.
code_challengeUsed in PKCE protocol.
code_challenge_methodUsed in PKCE protocol.
login_hintIf this parameter value is passed with the call to the /authorize or /register endpoints, the username field on the hosted screen will be pre-filled. This applies for email address or mobile phone number.