Hi there - I am trying to find a way to get my SAML SSO authentication working on my react app. I noticed the code snippet for SAML SSO login code in your documentation was just updated. I tried running this code snippet, and am getting an error. The code snippet:

import sdk from "@gooddata/api-client-bear";

const relayState = "<https://my.app.com/>";

sdk.user
  .initiateSamlSso(relayState)
  .catch(error => {
    // something went wrong, see the browser console for details
    console.error(error);
  });

The error:

Error: Cannot parse responseBody.
    at e.getDataInner (xhr.ts:135:19)
    at e.getData (xhr.ts:124:21)
    at user.ts:309:29

Does anyone know why I could be getting this?

Hello Daniel, is this maybe because you are using the

<https://my.app.com/>

example domain that does not return parsable responseBody? Where does your analytical application run?

Hi Daniel, the snippet you sent looks correct and should work. Can you please check what is in the response body of that network request and what is the HTTP Response code of that request?

Hey @Jiri Zajic and @Dan Homola - I got it to work by calling the function through the

backend

, rather than importing

sdk

. See below:

import { useBackend } from "@gooddata/sdk-ui";

const backend = useBackend();       

backend?.sdk.user
.initiateSamlSso(URL)
.catch((error: any) => {
    console.error(error);
});

Great news @Daniel! @Dan Homola are we still sure that the code snippet without instantiation and configuration of

sdk

is correct?

Hi, the

backend?.sdk.user

… call is potentially brittle, the

sdk

prop is marked as private so it might dissappear at any time. It is surprising to me that the default import did not work for you, but what @Jiri Zajic is suggesting might be the correct way after all as it is basically what the sdk-backend-bear does. So please in this case please prefer some form of import directly from the api-client-bear package. Hope this clears things up 🙂

Hey @Dan Homola - are you suggesting I instantiate

sdk

like this to be able to successfully call

sdk.user.initiateSamlSso

in a way that will be reliable?

import { factory } from "@gooddata/api-client-bear";

const domain = "<https://my.app.com/>";
const sdk = factory({ domain });

Hi @Daniel yes that should work well and is a stable API

That worked! Thank you @Jiri Zajic & @Dan Homola

That is strange 😕 looking trhough the source code, the only thing different that the version that worked for you does compared to the recommended one is stripping the trailing

/

from the domain. Can you please try specifying the domain without th trailing slash?

Hey @Dan Homola - removing the trailing

/

from the domain also didn't work. I had a support case open about this if you'd like to see more details about our setup. They recommended we make all of our API requests through the

useBackend()

hook. We were doing our authentication with the Auth0 library originally, which the GoodDataUI SDK didn't seem to support

Hi, this is really strange, especially when the backend.sdk version worked 😕 we can try replicating the way the backend.sdk version works. something like:

import { factory } from "@gooddata/api-client-bear";

const domain = "<https://my.app.com>";

const sdk = factory();

sdk.config.setCustomDomain(domain);

sdk.user.initiateSamlSso(URL).catch((error: any) => {
    console.error(error);
});

because this is what the

bearFactory

does internally. Can you please try that?