Connection Module Advanced Topics

This section describes advanced elements of the Companion connection-module API.

Bonjour Device Discovery

• Setting up Bonjour
• Further Reading

OAuth Authentication

• Handling the OAuth callback / redirect URL
• Opening the authentication URL
• Further Reading

HTTP Handler

• API call: handleHttpRequest
• CompanionHTTPRequest structure
• CompanionHTTPResponse structure
• JSON Response Example
• HTML Response Example
• Further Reading

"Learn" function

• Further Reading

Migrating to Boolean Feedbacks

• Why update your feedbacks?
• Steps to migrate to boolean feedbacks

Runtime Permissions

• Worker threads
• Child Processes
• Native addons
• Filesystem access
• Insecure OpenSSL algorithms

Setting Custom Variables

• Further Reading