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Result Web API

GET /result?access_token={token}

Fetches the result of the last biometric operation (i.e. verificationidentificationenrollment or liveness detection) performed with the token provided. Typically this is necessary if the token has been transmitted to another application to perform the biometric task and you now want to know what the result has been. An example for this procedure is the unified user interface.

Request Information

  • Parameters

  • access_token
    Required. The BWS web token that was used to perform the biometric task.

Response Information

The Result Web API returns an OperationResult object describing the result of the last biometric operation. The operation itself is in the Action element, the Biometric Class ID of the involved user or partition in the BCID field. The Success flag indicates whether the operation succeeded or not. In case that the operation failed (i.e. Success is set to false) an error is reported:

  • null (i.e no error)
    In the case of a verification operation this simply indicates that the user has not been recognized. Enrollment should always report an error if the operation fails.
  • LiveDetectionFailed
    The submitted samples do not prove that they are recorded from a live person.
  • ChallengeResponseFailed
    The submitted samples do not prove that they are recorded from a live person as they do not fulfill the challenge-response criteria.
  • NoTemplateAvailable
    The user has not yet been enrolled.
  • NotEnoughSamples
    Not enough valid samples have been provided.
  • ExecutionOfJobTimedOut
    Server seems to be too busy.

In case that the operation was an identification, a sorted array of BCIDs together with their scores is returned in the Matches element, containing a list of BCID and Score elements.

The call returns one of the standard HTTP status codes. With the success code (200) you receive the described  OperationResult object in the body text. With erroneous codes you typically get a Message field within the body text describing the error. The most commonly returned codes are:

  • 200 OK
    The response body contains the OperationResult object.
  • 204 No Content
    No result has been logged for the specified token.
  • 400 Bad Request
    No or an invalid token has been specified.
  • 401 Unauthorized
    No or an invalid authentication header has been specified.
  • 500 Internal Server Error
    A server side exception occurred.

Sample Code

private static async Task<string> ResultAsync(string bwsToken)
{
    using (var client = new HttpClient())
    {
        client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes($"{APP_IDENTIFIER}:{APP_SECRET}")));
        using (var response = await client.GetAsync(ENDPOINT + $"result?access_token={bwsToken}"))
        {
            Console.Write("Result response... ");
            if (response.StatusCode == HttpStatusCode.OK)
            {
                string result = await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync();
                var json = JObject.Parse(result);
                bool success = (bool)json["Success"];
                string action = (string)json["Action"];
                string bcid = (string)json["BCID"];

                // For identify we receive the matches
                if (action == TokenFor.identify.ToString())
                {
                    // we can see the matches
                    var matches = json["Matches"];

                }
                if (!success)
                {
                    // read out the error
                    string error = (string)json["Error"];
                    Console.WriteLine(error);
                }
                Console.WriteLine(json.ToString());
                return json.ToString();
            }

            Console.WriteLine(response.StatusCode.ToString());
            return string.Empty;
        }
    }
}
// using OkHttpClient from the OkHttp library
HttpUrl url = HttpUrl.parse("https://bws.bioid.com/extension/result").newBuilder()
        .addQueryParameter("access_token", token)
        .build();
Request request = new Request.Builder()
        .url(url)
        .addHeader("Authorization", Credentials.basic(APP_IDENTIFIER, APP_SECRET))
        .build();
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();
Response response = client.newCall(request).execute();
if (response.code() == 200) {
    // using org.json.JSONObject from JSON-java library
    JSONObject json = new JSONObject(response.body().string());
    if (json.getBoolean("Success")) {
        System.out.println(json.getString("Action") + " succeeded");
    } else {
        System.out.println(json.getString("Action") + " failed");
    }
}