How to detect when user closes or cancels Apple Music authorization

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Kimfucious OP

Created May ’20

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I have a web app that will pop up an Apple Music authorization window when the following code is run:

  const handleAppleMusicAuthorize = async () => {
    try {      
      await window.MusicKit.getInstance().authorize();
     // do stuff
    } catch (error) {
      console.warn("Error authorizing apple music", error);
    }
  };

If the user successfully authorizes the app, all is good; however, if the user closes the pop-up or cancels the process, there is no feedback for the app to detect.

I was thinking of using a timeout, but that seems ineligant.

What's the best way to handle this?

Any advice would be appreciated.

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Kimfucious OP

May ’20

Just a note on this, in that I discovered that if the user clicks "Not now", there will be an error "1" thrown and received by the app, which can then be handled.

The closure of the pop-up window, apparently won't be observable, so my current work-around is to have a cancel button on the page from which the authorize method is called, which resets things from the user's perspectiv.

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