External Authentication won't correctly set USER name or Role

Question

I am using JAVA under Google App Engine for my backend and attempting to log a user into a room using external authentication. I can connect and get into the room just fine my issue is with the user infomation once I am logged in. The user has a null username and ID (possibly generated) and thier role is set to zero (or at least not high enough to publish). If the room is set to auto-Promote then I do have the ability to publish (this is what I would expect) but still I needed the user to have a role of owner (so they can create nodes).
Here is a little of the java on the back end (I removed my shared secret):
public String getRoomToken(String roomID, String userName, String userID, int userRole)      {
           try {               
                         Session session = am.getSession(roomID);
             return session.getAuthenticationToken(..., "Bob", "TestID", 100);               
                         //return session.getAuthenticationToken(..., userName, userID, userRole);          
                      } catch (Exception e) {
               // TODO Auto-generated catch block
                               e.printStackTrace();
                    return null;
getAuthenticationToken is hardely changed from what is in the AFCS.java in the examples folder but here it is in any case
/**      * get an external authentication token      */
public String getAuthenticationToken(String accountSecret, String name, String id, int role) throws Exception
     if (role < UserRole.NONE || role > UserRole.OWNER)
         throw new Error("invalid-role");
        String token = "x:" + name + "::" + this.account
         + ":" + id + ":" + this.room + ":"+ Integer.toString(role);
        String signed = token + ":" + sign(accountSecret, token);
        // unencoded      
               //String ext = "ext=" + signed;       
               // encoded
       String ext = "exx=" + Utils.base64(signed);
       return ext;
This should work. My Shared secret is removed above but I doubt that is the problem as my app does authenticate just fine it just throws an exception telling me I don't have the required permissions to publish when I try to do anything. while observing from the DevConsole I see a user in the room but they are marked as null. Note that non-external authentication works just fine. If I hardcode my login creds in AdobeHSAuthenticator I can get in just fine with no issue. Also if the room I get an authenticationToken for does not match the roomURL I connect to with ConnectSessionContainer I will fail to login correctly like I would expect. So I know my credentials are getting to the AFCS and being decrypted correctly (as I can only authenticate for the room I send in that credential token) but for some reason it simply won't set my role and username/userid correctly.  Any help would be great, this has caused me a great deal of grief for days now...
Thanks guys...
Ves

Answer 1

Well this is wierd I was trying to set this up so that I could get the log output on that run and I ended up changing
<rtc:AdobeHSAuthenticator id="auth" authenticationKey="{Application.application.parameters['token'] as String}"/>
to
<rtc:AdobeHSAuthenticator id="auth" authenticationKey="{token}"/>
and adding a preinitialize function of:
protected function preInit():void
            templateID = Application.application.parameters['room'];
             token = Application.application.parameters['token'];
oddly enough it now works like a charm now. It is still disconcerting that I was able to actually enter the room even though my token was somehow corrupted (that probably isn't intened behavior). If this shows up agian I will try and track down the particulars and send you guys an email as an FYI. thanks for the help....
Ves