# Subscribing/Publishing

As part of the authentication/token generation you will receive a list of topics that you are allowed to access.

```
...

"topics": [{
    "topic": "s/b/b1te1/bac4a5b4-94a5-11ea-b438-be1dddf8af87/r/e",
    "scope": "read:stream_events",
    "permission": "read"
}, {
    "topic": "s/b/b1te1/bac4a5b4-94a5-11ea-b438-be1dddf8af87/r/status",
    "scope": "read:stream_status",
    "permission": "read"
}, {
    "topic": "s/b/b1te1/bac4a5b4-94a5-11ea-b438-be1dddf8af87/r/p",
    "scope": "read:stream_persons",
    "permission": "read"
}, {
    "topic": "s/x/s-2w5zPiF5wVKiha6gqjWBCr/b/bac4a5b4-94a5-11ea-b438-be1dddf8af87/p/c",
    "scope": "read:stream_persons_catchup",
    "permission": "read"
}, {
    "topic": "s/x/s-2w5zPiF5wVKiha6gqjWBCr/response",
    "scope": "read:response",
    "permission": "read"
}]

...
```

After connection you should subscribe to the list of topics that have a permission type of 'read' returned from the authentication call. If you are sending/writing data then it is important that you subscribe to the `read:response` topic as well as this is where any acknowledgements or error messages from the data that you send will be available.

The topics with a scope containing the word `catchup` are optional. If you subscribe to these channels you will receive the last values that those messages had. For example if you subscribe to the `read:stream_persons` scope you will receive a message when the persons involved in the fixture change. However you will not receieve a message until that happens. If you subscribe to the `read:stream_persons_cacthup` topic you will receive (on that topic) the last `read:persons` message sent before you connected.


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