# DeviceConnect: React Native

The React Native package can be used to integrate mobile apps with DeviceConnect so that users can share their data.

NOTE

Following will be shared by FinBox team at the time of integration:

ACCESS_KEY
SECRET_KEY
DC_SDK_VERSION
CLIENT_API_KEY

# Integration Flow

Assuming the bridge has been setup between your project and DeviceConnect as per this section, the following would be the flow in your app:

# Step 1: Requesting Runtime Permissions

It is required to show what all permissions you will be needing from users in your app, and then ask them for the permissions. Please refer this section to get the list of permissions the SDK needs. Also in case you want to exclude certain permissions, you can use a remove rule as mentioned in the same article.

# Step 2: Creating the User

After requesting, the createUser method can be called specifying a CUSTOMER_ID (Refer to this section for sample code and response), which represents a unique identifier for the user.

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It is recommended that CUSTOMER_ID is a masked value not a unique personal identifier like a phone number or email id so that the user remains anonymous to FinBox.
SDK will automatically consider syncing based on whether permission was granted by the user or not and what was configured, hence the createUser method must be called even though the user denies certain permissions.

createUser in general acts as a check for API credentials. For the first time when the user doesn't exists, it will create a user on the FinBox side. The next step will work only if this function returns a success response.

# Step 3: Start Syncing Data

If the createUser response is successful, you can call startPeriodicSync function (Refer this article) which will sync data in period intervals in background.

IMPORTANT

The recommended approach is to call createUser (and then startPeriodicSync on success) method every time user accesses the app, so that the background sync process remains in check.

# Setting up the bridge

Install the React SDK from the npm package:
```
yarn add react-native-risk-sdk
```
Now to auto link this native module to your app, run following command:
```
react-native link
```

Once the linking is done you need to open Android Studio and add a maven repository url in your project level build.gradle file

maven {  
    url "s3://risk-manager-android-sdk/artifacts"  
    credentials(AwsCredentials) {  
        accessKey = "<ACCESS_KEY>"
        secretKey = "<SECRET_KEY>"  
    }
}

Specify the following in local.properties file:

AWS_KEY=<ACCESS_KEY>
AWS_SECRET=<SECRET_KEY>
FINBOX_RM_VERSION=<DC_SDK_VERSION>
FINBOX_RM_ARTIFACT=parent-release

Final change required is in the MainApplication class of your native app.

@Override  
protected List<ReactPackage> getPackages() {
    return Arrays.<ReactPackage>asList(
        ....
        new RiskSdkPackage(),
        ...
    );
}

# Handle Permissions

The Runtime permissions needs to handled by the developer when calling the helper methods. Based on the permissions available, the SDK intelligently syncs the alternate data.

Below are the list of Runtime permissions the sdk adds to the application Manifest, if Manifest Merger is enabled:

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_PHONE_STATE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_STORAGE" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALENDAR" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_SMS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.RECEIVE_SMS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.READ_CONTACTS" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.GET_ACCOUNTS" />
<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.PACKAGE_USAGE_STATS"
    tools:ignore="ProtectedPermissions" />

To remove the unused permissions, add a remove rule to that permission as shown below:

<uses-permission
    android:name="android.permission.READ_CALL_LOG"
    tools:node="remove" />

In case the Manifest merger is not enabled add the above-specified permissions manually.

# Create User Method

Call createUser method using the FinBoxRiskSdk instance to create the user (first time) or check the API credentials for the SDK. It takes CUSTOMER_ID as one of its arguments which is a unique identifier for a user.

IMPORTANT

Please make sure CUSTOMER_ID is not more than 64 characters and is alphanumeric (with no special characters). Also it should never null or a blank string "".

The response to this method (success or failure) can be captured using the callback, and on success Start Periodic Sync Method should be called.

import FinBoxRiskSdk from 'react-native-risk-sdk';
//Function to trigger RiskSdk
const callModule = () => {
    FinBoxRiskSdk.createUser(
        "CLIENT_API_KEY",
        "CUSTOMER_ID",
        (errorStatus) => {
	    // Error Callback
            console.log("Error status -> ", errorStatus)
        }, 
        (msg) => {
            // Success Callback, Call the periodic sync once the user has been created
	    console.log("Final message", msg)
	    FinBoxRiskSdk.startPeriodicSync(12) //Start the sync periodically after every 12 hour
	}
    )
}

You can read about the error codes in this section.

# Start Periodic Sync Method

This is to be called only on a successful response to createUser method's callback. On calling this the syncs will start for all the data sources configured as per permissions. The method below syncs data in the background at regular intervals:

FinBoxRiskSdk.startPeriodicSync(12) //Start the sync periodically after every 12 hour

Handle Sync Frequency

startPeriodicSync takes one argument which indicates the frequency of sync in hours.

# Cancel Periodic Syncing

If you have already set up the sync for the user data, you can cancel it any time by the following code:

FinBoxRiskSdk.stopPeriodicSync();

# Reset User Data

In case the user data needs to be removed to re-sync the entire data, use the method resetData.

FinBoxRiskSdk.resetData();

# Error Codes

Below table contains the constant name, error code value and the description of error code:

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All the constants stated below are available as constants in SDK.

Constant Name	Constant Value	Description
QUOTA_LIMIT_EXCEEDED	7670	API Key exceeded its quota limit
AUTHENTICATE_FAILED	7671	Authentication of the API Key and the User failed
AUTHENTICATE_API_FAILED	7672	Authentication of the API Key failed
AUTHORIZATION_API_FAILED	7673	Authorization of the API Key failed
AUTHENTICATE_API_EMPTY	7676	API key is empty
AUTHENTICATE_USER_EMPTY	7677	User name is empty
NO_ACTIVE_NETWORK	7678	Device is not connected to an active network
NETWORK_TIME_OUT	7679	Request timed out
NETWORK_RESPONSE_NULL	7681	Network response is null
USER_TOKENS_NULL	7682	Both access token and refresh token is null
ACCESS_TOKEN_NULL	7683	Access token is null
REFRESH_TOKEN_NULL	7684	Refresh token is null
AUTHENTICATE_NOT_FOUND	7685	End point is not found

Some error codes can be resolved by validating the implementation and some by retrying the creation of the user, while other error codes can only be resolved by contacting FinBox.

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