All Release Notes
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 whenauthenticationMode
is set toExternalAuth
. - [API] Removed
password
field from Customer whenauthenticationMode
is set toExternalAuth
. - [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 fromString!
toString
- Added the
authenticationMode
field to theCustomer
type.
- [GraphQL API] Changed the
CustomerSignUpDraft
type:CustomerSignUpDraft.password
input field type changed fromString!
toString
- Input field
authenticationMode
was added toCustomerSignUpDraft
type
- [GraphQL API] Changed the
CustomerUpdateAction
type:- Input field
setAuthenticationMode
was added toCustomerUpdateAction
type
- Input field
- [GraphQL API] Changed the
CustomerSignMeUpDraft
type:CustomerSignMeUpDraft.password
input field type changed fromString!
toString
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 {ExternalAuthPassword}input SetCustomerAuthenticationMode {authMode: AuthenticationMode!password: String}