Support for JWT-based access token #3773
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Overview
Connected app / external client app can be configured to issue JWT-based access token (for more information see here).
The mobile application does not need to know if it is using a JWT-based access token or an opaque token in most cases.
Login and refresh will just work as before.
However, front door URL cannot be built directly using the JWT-based access token. Instead the single access API should be called to generate front door URL.
We already made changes in the Mobile SDK to be JWT-based access token ready:
Changes in this PR
JwtAccessToken
to allow apps to inspect the JWT encoded in the JWT-based access token.Testing
JwtAccessToken
.TODO
SalesforceWebViewCookieManager
i.e. the class responsible for hydrating the web view sessions in hybrid remote apps when JWT-based access token are in use. This change will be done in a separate PR because this class lives in a separate repo: https://github.com/forcedotcom/SalesforceMobileSDK-ios-hybrid.