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adamkaz's avatar
adamkaz
Channel Surfer
9 years ago

GetChannelCred

I was wondering if anyone has been able to get GetChannelCred working as intended. It looks like it would be a pretty slick way to authenticate users. Its a bit hard to debug, since I'm guessing that it only works for channels in the store (private or public). Even so, when I've played around with it, I seem to always get an empty json object back.

Here is what I'm trying:
store = CreateObject("roChannelStore")
channelcredjson = store.GetChannelCred().json
pucid = "none"
if channelcredjson <> invalid and channelcredjson <> ""
    channelcredobj = ParseJSON(channelcredjson)
    if channelcredobj<>invalid and channelcredobj.roku_pucid<>invalid
        pucid = channelcredobj.roku_pucid
    end if
end if


When I POST this to my server, pucid == "none"
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3 Replies

  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    9 years ago
    It works for me with a private channel, but returns an empty JSON object when sideloaded. Although the docs claim it's of type "JSON", it's really just roString. I didn't bother parsing the JSON object; I just dumped the string. It looks ok to me.

    -JT
  • adamkaz's avatar
    adamkaz
    Channel Surfer
    9 years ago
    JT - thanks for the reply. Mind giving us an example of what that roString looks like? Does it have curly braces, etc? (replace some letters/numbers so you don't give away YOUR channelcred 🙂 )
  • renojim's avatar
    renojim
    Community Streaming Expert
    9 years ago
    {"error":null,"roku_pucid":"eb0a2d4b-0bad-59fe-aae3-25ccfcbf5fbf","token_type":"urn:roku:pucid:token_type:pucid_token"}


    This is interesting and I don't know what it means, but when I ran my test channel on my Roku 4 I got back an empty string.  The same channel on my Roku 3 or TV returns something similar to the above.  Make sure you check the value of status.  I've only ever seen two values:  0 when it works and 400 when I get the empty string.  400 is also the value of status I get when sideloaded.

    Hope this helps!
    -JT