How to integrate with a commerce app

Question

Is there a sample workflow for a shopper paying for access on a commerce website to view encrypted content?
It seems that the player app will need to prompt for user authorisation, but what should the values be considering they bought the content on the commerce website?
In the case of a subscription, what API should be called to update the CustomerAuthorization table?
Many thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Hi Kevin,
If you would like to use complex business workflows, like the subscription workflow you've mentioned below, it's recommended you install the Reference Implementation license server, and not the license server for Protected Streaming.  Instructions on how to do this (which I assume you've already done) can be found on page 64 of the "Protecting Content" document: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/flashaccess/2.0/protecting_content.pdf
After setting up your license server, packaging content, and confirming that you can playback encrypted content, you should take a look at page 70 of the document, where it goes into detail on "Implementing the usage models".  This is where you turn on the Reference Implementation's business model workflows.
Regarding your question on what API you should use to update the CustomerAuthorization table - there is no API; this table is contained in your MySQL database.  You'll have to use SQL to update that table, or at least modify the "PopulateSampleDB.sql" file with whatever changes you want to that table, and re-run it.  In the real world, your web site portal will have to implement account management logic, which will handle things such as accept payment, and then update the appropriate tables needed to grant the proper access privileges to the user (like updating that CustomerAuthorization table).
cheers,
/Eric.