Ddomiscum.com is committed to bringing you useful information about UBA and other commercial banks in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. UBA Developer Zone offers a one-stop shop for everything you need to get going. They have opened access to their UBA programs that will be enabling smarter, connected, and differentiated systems and networks.
We also made this third-party ecosystem available provide software development environments and embedded platforms that offer a comprehensive set of familiar and powerful tools, libraries and methodologies. These environments lower your development time while allowing you to create custom hardware accelerators easily and on demand. To capitalize on the benefits of our system integration, design teams require state of the art hardware architectures, design flows, and a proven methodology that maximizes productivity from concept through implementation and debug and the UBA Developer zone bridges the gap.
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How UBA Developer Zone Works
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- · How to register on the platform
Simply click Access Sandbox on the Open Banking Platform and enter your email address.
- · How to subscribe to an API
Log on to the platform, click on the desired API , choose your created application, choose your desired tier and click subscribe.
- · How to generate Access Token
Log on to the platform, click on Applications, click view on your created Application, choose the key you want to generate either production or sandbox keys, click show keys, scroll to the end of the page, choose validity period for the token and click regenerate.
- · How to request for live parameters
Simply visit the homepage and click request for live
Frequently Asked Questions about UBA Developer Zone
What are Applications on API Store?
An application is a logical collection of APIs. An application is primarily used to decouple the consumer from the APIs. It allows you to generate and use a single key for multiple APIs, subscribe multiple times to a single API with different tiers levels
How does the API subscription work?
You can create a sample API with an inline script and then make it available for testing purpose for your API subscribers. You do not need to have an actual service backend but rather mock the response using the inline script. This is provided through the API Cloud’s prototyped API feature.
What content type are supported in API cloud?
API Cloud Gateway servers process requests and responses with the following content types. If you have a requirement to process payloads of other content types, send a support request to the WSO2 Cloud team.
application/x-www-form-urlencoded
multipart/form-data
text/html
application/xml
text/xml
application/soap+xml
text/plain
application/json
application/vnd.api+json
application/json/badgerfish
text/javascript
Which of the subscription tier level do I subscribe to?
Subscription tiers provide the capability to set the maximum number of
requests allowed to the API through the subscribers. The API Cloud
provides 4 tiers Gold, Silver, Bronze and Unlimited.
What is meant by the error codes received at the API Gateway?
For a full list of the error codes, please visit www.developer.ubaopenbanking.com
| Error Code | Error Message | Description | Example |
| 700700 | API Blocked | This API has been blocked temporarily | Invoked an API which is in the blocked lifecycle state |
| 900800 | Message throttled out | The maximum number of requests that can be made to the API within a designated time period is reached and the API is throttled for the user. | Invoke an API exceeding the tier limit |
| 900810 | Hard limit exceeded | Hard throttle limit has been reached | Invoke an API exceeding the hard throttle limit |
What are the requirements to consume the APIs?
| API | Requirements |
| Direct Debit | PSSP License from CBN or Mobile Money License Collateral Corporate Account with UBA Data Policy |
| Transfer | PSSP License from CBN or Mobile Money License Corporate Account with UBA Data Policy |
| Statement | PSSP License from CBN or Mobile Money License Corporate Account with UBA Data Policy |
| Balance Enquiry | PSSP License from CBN or Mobile Money License Corporate Account with UBA Data Policy |
| ATM Locator | PSSP License from CBN or Mobile Money License Data Policy |
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