steamworks.getAuthSessionTicket()

Overview

Returns an authentication token produced by GetAuthSessionTicket required by many SDKs to connect to Steam API. Note, that while result is available immediately, Steam API documentation suggests to wait for the authSessionTicketResponse to make sure ticket is valid and can be used.

Gotchas

Format or contents of this string is not specified in the documentation. It is not guaranteed to be a set of characters, it may be constant of random bytes.

Syntax

steamworks.getAuthSessionTicket( )

Example

local steamworks = require( "plugin.steamworks" )

local ticketToken

local function onAuthTicketResponse(event)
    if event.isError then
        print("Error had occurred, code " .. event.resultCode)
        return
    end
    -- use the value of the ticketToken here
end

steamworks.addEventListener( "authSessionTicketResponse", onAuthTicketResponse )
ticketToken = steamworks.getAuthSessionTicket()