The xID IDP in the OIDC Provider provides access to the xID Service. An integral part is to provide stepup to the BankID IDP whenever required. Note that such stepup is initated, and handled, by the xID IDP itself when the end-user cannot be determined via device detection. The merchant is not involved in any way for such a stepup. This is in contrast to any stepup from xID to BankID that the merchant may desire for other business reasons. In the later case the OIDC Client for the merchant needs to be registered and configured both for the xID service and the BankID service. 

An OpenID Client make use of xID either via login hints directly in the REST API or via integration with the JavaScript xID Connector as described in the following.

Login hints

The exact behaviour for the xID IPD can be controlled by the OIDC Client by suppling the proper values to the login_hint parameter in requests to the Authorize endpoint: 

JavaScript Connector