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Introduced AuthenticationMode for Customer

17 March 2022

Composable Commerce

HTTP API

Enhancement

CustomersGraphQL

We introduced the AuthenticationMode that controls whether the password field is required for a Customer in public beta. The Password authentication mode is the default mode for backwards compatibility that requires to set a password for the Customer. For use cases where Customers are authenticated externally, you can now set the authenticationMode to ExternalAuth to create Customers without a password.

Changes:

[API] Added authenticationMode field to Customer and CustomerDraft.
[API] Changed password field to be optional on CustomerDraft when authenticationMode is set to ExternalAuth.
[API] Removed password field from Customer when authenticationMode is set to ExternalAuth.
[API] Added Set AuthenticationMode update action.
[GraphQL API] Added the following types to the GraphQL schema: AuthenticationMode, SetCustomerAuthenticationMode.
[GraphQL API] Changed the Customer type:
- Customer.password field type changed from String! to String
- Added the authenticationMode field to the Customer type.
[GraphQL API] Changed the CustomerSignUpDraft type:
- CustomerSignUpDraft.password input field type changed from String! to String
- Input field authenticationMode was added to CustomerSignUpDraft type
[GraphQL API] Changed the CustomerUpdateAction type:
- Input field setAuthenticationMode was added to CustomerUpdateAction type
[GraphQL API] Changed the CustomerSignMeUpDraft type:
- CustomerSignMeUpDraft.password input field type changed from String! to String

The following changes were introduced in terms of GraphQL SDL:

extend type Customer {
  authenticationMode: AuthenticationMode
}
extend input CustomerSignUpDraft {
  "BETA: This feature can be subject to change and should be used carefully in production. https://docs.commercetools.com/api/contract#public-beta"
  authenticationMode: AuthenticationMode
}
extend input CustomerUpdateAction {
  setAuthenticationMode: SetCustomerAuthenticationMode
}
"AuthenticationMode values. BETA: This feature can be subject to change and should be used carefully in production. https://docs.commercetools.com/api/contract#public-beta"
enum AuthenticationMode {
  ExternalAuth
  Password
}
input SetCustomerAuthenticationMode {
  authMode: AuthenticationMode!
  password: String
}