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bc-authorize

This operation is used to claim a consent by the account holder for the requested scopes.

Try it

Request

Request URL

https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize

Request headers

Authorization

string

Bearer Token. Replace with a valid oauth2 token received from oauth2 token endpoint in Partner Gateway.
X-Target-Environment

string

The identifier of the EWP system where the transaction shall be processed. This parameter is used to route the request to the EWP system that will initiate the transaction.
X-Callback-Url (optional)

string

URL to the server where the callback should be sent.
Content-Type (optional)

string

Media type of the body sent to the API.
Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key

string

Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

application/x-www-form-urlencoded

login_hint=ID:{msisdn}/MSISDN&scope={scope}&access_type={online/offline}

Responses

200 OK

Representations

application/json

Sample
Schema

{
  "auth_req_id": "string",
  "interval": 0,
  "expires_in": 0
}

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "auth_req_id": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Authentication request ID as an UUID."
    },
    "interval": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Indicates how long time the client should wait between retries towards the endpoint /oauth2/token."
    },
    "expires_in": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Shows when the authentication request ID expires, in seconds."
    }
  }
}

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X POST "https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize"
-H "Authorization: "
-H "X-Target-Environment: "
-H "X-Callback-Url: "
-H "Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
-H "Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Authorization", "");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-Target-Environment", "");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("X-Callback-Url", "");
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");

            var uri = "https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize?" + queryString;

            HttpResponseMessage response;

            // Request body
            byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");

            using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
            {
               content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
               response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
            }

        }
    }
}

// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize");


            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
            request.setHeader("Authorization", "");
            request.setHeader("X-Target-Environment", "");
            request.setHeader("X-Callback-Url", "");
            request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
            request.setHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Authorization","");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("X-Target-Environment","");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("X-Callback-Url","");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "POST",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Authorization"];
    [_request setValue:@"" forHTTPHeaderField:@"X-Target-Environment"];
    [_request setValue:@"" forHTTPHeaderField:@"X-Callback-Url"];
    [_request setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'Authorization' => '',
    'X-Target-Environment' => '',
    'X-Callback-Url' => '',
    'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Authorization': '',
    'X-Target-Environment': '',
    'X-Callback-Url': '',
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com')
    conn.request("POST", "/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'Authorization': '',
    'X-Target-Environment': '',
    'X-Callback-Url': '',
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com')
    conn.request("POST", "/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://sandbox.momodeveloper.mtn.com/collection/v1_0/bc-authorize')


request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Authorization'] = ''
# Request headers
request['X-Target-Environment'] = ''
# Request headers
request['X-Callback-Url'] = ''
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'
# Request headers
request['Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body