PingOne Platform APIs

Response types

The authorization request must specify a response_type attribute, which determines whether an access token, an authorization code, or an ID token is returned by the authorization server. The following is the list of the OAuth 2.0 response types supported by the PingOne authorization server:

  • code

    Returns an authorization code. If the grant type is authorization_code, the response_type attribute must have the code value. The authorization code returned by the request is exchanged for an access token to complete the authorization flow.

  • token

    Returns an access token. If the grant type is implicit or client_credentials, the response_type attribute can specify the token value to return an access token.

  • id_token

    Returns an ID token. If the grant type is implicit, the response_type attribute can specify the id_token value to return a JWT containing a set of claims that represent the authentication state of an end user.

  • id_token (OpenID Connect ID token)

    If the request contains the id_token response type and the openid scope, then it is considered an authentication (OpenID Connect) request, and an ID token is issued. The ID token includes the ID of the user; this request can also include the profile scope to add additional user claims to the ID token.