API release (April 2016)
To serve our customers in best possible way, we keep improving our Platform with best in class features and functionalities. In our latest release, LoginRadius engineering team has made several improvements bringing in more features and flexibility to our platform. Important features added in this release are:
- Allowing more flexibility in client side validations: Server side validation of fields such as phone number is removed and is now handled on Client side. This allows more flexibility while defining the validations of the phone numbers as per the customer requirements
- Email as Profile data from Amazon login: Customers can now get the email from Amazon login by default. Previously, it has to be enabled from the LoginRadius User Account and makes it cumbersome for the developers.
- Email as Profile data from Twitter login : Twitter has started providing Email as part of Profile data in their latest API release. LoginRadius platform has included the latest APIs in its platform and customers can get email as part of profile data with Twitter login. In order to get email as part of Profile data, customers have to get their app approved by Twitter.
- Getting the number of Logins for an individual user: We have got number of requests from our customers asking to fetch number of times a user has logged in. In this release, we have released this feature. Customers can now get the number of times a user has logged in as part of profile data.
- Email template for “Welcome Email”: We’ve added support for setting “Welcome Email” template in the new User Account. The customers can enable and customize the template as per their requirement.
- More options for encoding passwords: New options to encode password and salt for SHA1 and MD5 algorithms has been added to the platform. The encoding options included are as follows :
- Base64
- UTF8
- HexaDecimal
- Default
- Bug Fixes: In this release we have also included several fixes to existing issues affecting user experience and API usage.
- Improvements in REST Hooks: REST hooks allows customers to send Login and Registration data to other systems. We’ve made this feature more robust and flexible. We’ve implemented the following in REST hooks
- Target URL validation: This allows LoginRadius to verify that the destination to which the data is to be sent is genuine.
- Event verification: We now verify that the user can register for only 2 allowed events – Login and Register
- Limiting the number of subscribed URL: We now allow a subscriber to register only for 5 different URL.
- Subscribed URL API: A new API is introduced to get all URLs subscribed to in LoginRadius site.