Installing the SDK

In your react-native project directory:

npm install react-native-knotapi --save

yarn add react-native-knotapi

From React Native 0.60 and higher, linking is automatic. If you need to manually install the SDK, run the below:

react-native link react-native-knotapi

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You can view the latest version of the SDK here.

Importing the SDK

Import knotapi

import { openCardOnFileSwitcher, addCardSwitcherListener, eventNames } from "react-native-knotapi";

Create a Session

Then, Create a Session to retrieve a session_id. We recommend saving this session_id for future debugging and logging in development.

Open Card On File Switcher

openCardOnFileSwitcher({
  sessionId: SESSION_ID,
  clientId: CLIENT_ID,
  environment: "development",
})

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Expected behavior

It's expected that your integration with Knot will retrieve and pass a new session_id into the SDK on each initialization.

Switch a Card

After a user authenticates to a merchant, you will receive the AUTHENTICATED webhook indicating that it is time to switch the card. Immediately upon receiving this webhook, make a call to the Switch Card endpoint.

Open With Specific Merchants

If you decide to use List Merchants to retrieve a list of merchants, list them in your app, and then open the SDK with a specific merchant, you can do so by passing a merchant ID in the session instance as an array of numbers. More in Retrieving & Listing Merchants. The merchant ID is the same across all environments.

Single Merchant ID

If a single merchant ID is provided, the user will be sent directly to that merchant's login experience in the SDK.

Multiple Merchant IDs (Not Recommended)

If multiple merchant IDs are provided, the user will see a list of only those merchants to select from. It is not recommended that you provide a long list of merchants in order to remove a few, but rather "hide" certain merchants that you desire from your Customer Dashboard.

openCardOnFileSwitcher({
  sessionId: SESSION_ID, 
  clientId: CLIENT_ID, 
  merchantIds: [44],  
  environment: "development"
})

Opening With an Entry Point

In your app's user experience, you may choose to integrate Knot in one or multiple places (e.g. from different tabs or screens). How users behave when interacting with Knot from each of these "entry points" may vary and it will be useful for you to be able to differentiate these groups of users by entry point in order to assess the value of each entry point. You can provide a value for the entry point in the session instance when you open the SDK. This value will be returned in the AUTHENTICATED webhook.

openCardOnFileSwitcher({
  sessionId: SESSION_ID, 
  clientId: CLIENT_ID,
  entryPoint: "onboarding",
  environment: "development",
})

Opening With Categories and Search

Users are presented with a list of merchants in the SDK (unless you provide a single merchant as described above). Along with the list is a set of categories and search experience. Each of these components is visible to users by default (as set in Knot's backend), however, you can choose to remove either of them by setting setUseCategories: false and setUseSearch: false. This is not recommended.

openCardOnFileSwitcher({
  sessionId: SESSION_ID, 
  clientId: CLIENT_ID, 
  setUseCategories: true,
  setIseSearch: true,
  environment: "development",
})

Testing in Development

To test a user's lifecycle through the SDK in the Development environment, you can use the following credentials when authenticating to a merchant:

username/email: user_good; password: pass_good

A full list of credentials useful in testing various merchant login scenarios can be found here.

Events

Events provide your application with real time feedback and can be used to build in-app functionality or for logging purposes.

onSuccess

This event is called when a user successfully logged in to the merchant and their card was switched. It takes a single string argument containing the name of the merchant.

let listener = addCardSwitcherListener(eventNames.onSuccess, merchant => {
  console.log(merchant);
});

onError

This event is called when an error occurs during SDK initialization. It takes two string arguments containing the error code and error message. The full list of errors can be found here.

let listener = addCardSwitcherListener(eventNames.onError, (errorCode, errorMessage) => {
  console.log(`Error ${errorCode}: ${errorMessage}`);
});

onExit

This event is called when a user closes the SDK.

let listener = addCardSwitcherListener(eventNames.onExit, () => {
  console.log("onExit");
});

onEvent

This event is called when certain events occur in the SDK. With this callback, you will be able to understand how a user is progressing through their lifecycle of authenticating to a merchant. This event is an object with three string properties containing the event name, merchant name, and task id.

let listener = addCardSwitcherListener(eventNames.onEvent, (e) => {
  console.log('Event: ', e.event);
  console.log('taskId: ', e.taskId);
  console.log('merchant:', e.merchant);
});

Events

Other Options

Closing the SDK

You can explicitly close the SDK with the following method:

import { closeKnotSDK } from "react-native-knotapi";
closeKnotSDK();

Implementing using cookies for authentication

Knot clears cookies for security purposes, so if you use cookies in your app on Android, you can allow list your domains using the domainUrls option. This is uncommon.

openCardOnFileSwitcher({
  sessionId: SESSION_ID, 
  clientId: CLIENT_ID, 
  domainUrls: ["https://domain1.com", "https://domain2.com", .....],  
  environment: "development"
})