About Grant Types

An authorization grant is a credential representing the resource owner's authorization (to access its protected resources) used by the client to obtain an access token. Depending on the API resource, different grant types are used. The PRIVO Platform supports the following (3) three grant types: Implicit, Authorization Code and Client Credentials Authentication.

All examples make use of standard parameters state, nonce and redirect_uri. For detailed instructions pertaining to these parameters see OIC Authentication Request.