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Member

A member access token allows member to perform actions on the community. This is useful especially when you are developing a client side application such as a mobile app and you want to login a member with their username and password.

note

All request to Bettermode's GraphQL endpoint except for tokens query should be authenticated.

Guest

If you want to authenticate as a guest or as a member using their email (or username) and password, the most common way is to use the tokens query. Here is a sample query:

query {
tokens(networkDomain: "community.bettermode.io") {
accessToken
role {
name
scopes
}
member {
id
name
}
}
}

You should replace the networkDomain value to your own community address. The result of the above query will be a guest access token as followed:

{
"data": {
"tokens": {
"accessToken": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiI...",
"role": {
"name": "Guest",
"scopes": [
"network:login",
"network:view",
"role:view",
"member:view:all",
"member:verify",
"network:join",
"network:join:withToken",
"network:join:withLink"
]
},
"member": {
"id": "GUEST_NtT0FkLxxiNH2Ji",
"name": "Guest"
}
}
}
}

You should pass the provided accessToken in all GraphQL requests in the header as followed:

Authorization: Bearer {accessToken}

With a guest access token you have a read only access to all resources available to non-logged in members.

Registered member

To retrieve a user access token you should use the guest access token to send a request to loginNetwork query.

mutation {
loginNetwork(
input: { usernameOrEmail: "bettermodeuser", password: "bettermodepassword" }
) {
accessToken
role {
name
scopes
}
member {
id
name
}
}
}
note

The loginNetwork does not work without passing a guest access token in the header and will result in Unauthorized error message.

The result of the above query will be a user access token as followed:

{
"data": {
"loginNetwork": {
"accessToken": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cC...",
"role": {
"name": "Admin",
"scopes": ["*"]
},
"member": {
"id": "9FWKl7Y1rB",
"name": "John Smith"
}
}
}
}

Similar to guest access tokens you will be able to use the user access token by passing it in the header as followed:

Authorization: Bearer {accessToken}