Attaching Custom Metadata to the Connect Webview

Use custom metadata to link internal IDs from your application to a Seam Connect Webview and connected account.

Adding Custom Metadata to a Connect Webview enables you to store custom information, like customer details or internal IDs from your application. The custom_metadata is then transferred to any connected accounts connected via the connect webview, making it easy to find and filter these resources in your Seam workspace.

The custom_metadata property supports up to 50 JSON key:value pairs. Upon an account is successfully connected via a connect webview, Seam creates a connected account and copies the custom_metadata to it.

If the custom_metadata property is left blank, Seam will store an empty set ({}) on both the connect webview and connected account resource.

To add custom_metadata to a Connect Webview:

1. Execute /connect_webviews/create and specify the internal ID as a key:value pair in the custom_metadata. For example:

Python

Request:

seam.connect_webviews.create(
  provider_category = "stable",
  custom_metadata = {
    "your_app_user_id": "xxxx" # Insert your custom data here.
  }
)

Response:

ConnectWebview(
  workspace_id='398d80b7-3f96-47c2-b85a-6f8ba21d07be',
  connect_webview_id='49e050d9-cb4c-4600-b24d-cdf9dd2f92b7',
  status='pending',
  url='https://connect.getseam.com/connect_webviews/view?connect_webview_id=49e050d9-cb4c-4600-b24d-cdf9dd2f92b7&auth_token=C1r8ff3GLSr2L1ifEaCopAgrq2Faht2Dh',
  custom_metadata={'id': 'internal_id_1'},
  ...
)

cURL (bash)

JavaScript

Ruby

C#

Java

1. Your app presents the Connect Webview to your user.

2. The user completes the Connect Webview.

3. Seam creates a connected account containing the user's device account information. This connected account includes a custom_metadata property that automatically contains the information that you set in the custom_metadata property for the Connect Webview.

4. To retrieve the ID of the connected account associated with the completed Connect Webview, get the connect_webview and check the connected_account_id property.

5. To retrieve the connected account, get the connected_account with the ID that you identified in the previous step.

6. Within the returned connected_account, view the custom_metadata.

If a Connect Webview was used to connect an existing connected account (for example, to reconnect a disconnected account), Seam will replace any existing custom metadata in the connected_account object with the new payload.

Next Steps

Once you have attached custom metadata to Connect Webviews, you can filter your Connect Webviews by this custom metadata.