I am trying to make a call to an authorization endpoint using OAuth2 with grant type Client Credentials - my call is successful - that is not an issue. However, I, now, want to take the access token that is returned and put it in a variable so I may use it in subsequent calls without having to manually cut-and-paste to my other calls.
When the call returns I see the token I desire to copy in the Access Token field at the bottom of the OAuth2 window (the one shown below that says expires in 42 minutes) AND I see it in the Authorization field on the Timeline tab of the results. I just can't figure out how to get access to it so I may dump it into variable.
The gif on the FAQ goes really fast, and does not provide step by step. Also, I didnt find any answer on YouTube or other websites, so I thought to share step by step for chaining requests on Insomnia.
Create a POST query to obtain your access token. Notice that my access token is returned in the field called "access_token", we will use this in step 3. Your return field may be different.
Create a second GET request for the API that would return the data for you. In my case, I wanted to get all users from a SCIM interface. In the Bearer tab, type in Response => Body Attribute (Insomnia will autofill).
Mouse click on the Request => Body Attribute (the one you just typed in), and select the authentication post in the dropdown "Request" (this is the one you created in step 1), and in the "Filter (JSONPath)" field, type in the $.[attribute name] - where attribute name is the response that returns from authentication call. In my case, it was access_token, see step 1 for yours.
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Click No Environment > Manage Environments and you will see a base environment in JSON.
Since this is in JSON, create a { "jwt_token": "Response => Body Attribute" }" pair for your token variable. Please note that "Response => Body Attribute" needs to be configured. When you type response, hit space and this option should be available.
Once done choosing "Response => Body Attribute", it will show with some gibberish content and with red background, no worries... just click it to configure. Make sure you have the same setup.
However... you need to change your request to the route where you get the token from the server and another thing is the Filter (JSONPath or XPath) change it depending on your setup.
You should have the token, stored in jwt_token variable and can use the variable on a route that you like.
Example:
If you want to save a token that is returned in a response into an environment variable, you can use request chaining in your environment variable. Take a look at this url for more details on that https://support.insomnia.rest/article/43-chaining-requests...
Here is what you could do (what I did)
Create an environment variable
For the value of the variable, use the Response => Body Attribute and under Filter (JSONPath or XPath), choose the attribute of the token in your response body (if it is "token" then put $.token).
After that just put the token environment variable wherever you need it in the following requests.
I was not able to resolve this question but was able to get around it by defining the fields in the body of the request and bypassing the OAuth2 tab completely.
You can add it as a header, by referencing the outputs of the OAuth2 request:
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For my project
I have created test cases in SOAPUI for Rest project.
I have to pass token in header for each test steps that I have added in the test cases.
Also the token validity only for 1 hour. So every hour I have to enter the token in the headers.
I want to know is there any way automate this token entry and generation dynamically ?
For now what I am doing is getting token every time by refreshing the URL in every 1 hour and putting it manually in header of every test case and test steps.
You could use something like the following Groovy script as the first test step of your test case. This gets your authorisation token from whatever service you use and sets it in your request header:
def authorisationToken = // Retrieve a new token from your authorisation service
// Get the headers for the request
def restRequest = testRunner.testCase.getTestStepByName('REST request')
def headers = restRequest.httpRequest.requestHeaders
// Set the token as a header. Remove it first in case it already exists
headers.remove("Authorisation") // Or whatever your header is called
headers.put("Authorisation", authorisationToken)
restRequest.httpRequest.requestHeaders = headers
If you need to, you could also create a custom property at, say, the test suite level, then set this property after you retrieve it:
testRunner.testCase.testSuite.project.setPropertyValue("Authorization", authorisationToken)
Then, you could use it anywhere you need with ${#TestSuite#authorisationToken}
Is there a way to have a parameter at the end of the URL for a Rest request?
This is the URL:
http://localhost:8000/my_user/1000
I've tried to use a parameter for the 1000, like so:
http://localhost:8000/my_user/${#Project#id_test}
This doesn't render 1000 at the end.
Is there a way to do this?
There are REST resource parameter types.
In your case, style should be Template. That should resolve the issue.
To give an example:
While adding a new REST Resource from API use below url instead of plain text value.
In the request you would see as below:
Now, in your test cases, you can use the property expression (the one you were using in the question) i.e., ${#Project#id_test} for value field/column as underline in the above image.
You may also go thru documentation if needed.
What you're trying to achieve is possible, though I'm not sure about the value you have supplied.
When you set up a RESTful Test Project is SoapUI, you define the root/base url under test.
When you set up the service call in SoapUI, you define the GET, POST settings. In the same place, you can add parameters. Click on the Request tab and you should see an empty table with headings, Name, Value, Style, Level.
You can add your parameter here.
E.g.
Name | Value | Style | Level
id | Smith | QUERY | RESOURCE
When you run the service call and you not sure your request is correct, click on the Raw tab and that will show what SoapUI is actually sending to your service.
I'm currently working on ng-admin.
I'm having a problem retrieving user data from my REST API (connected to a MongoDB) and displaying it.
I have identified the problem as the following:
When I enter http://localhost:3000/users into my browser, I get a list of all users in my database.
When I enter http://localhost:3000/users?_page=1&_perPage=30&_sortDir=DESC&_sortField=id,
I get [] as a result.
I am quite new to this, I used both my browser and the POSTMAN Chrome extension to test this and get the same result.
http://localhost:3000/users_end=30&_order=DESC&_sort=id&_start=0
This (/users_end) is a different request than /users.
It should be:
http://localhost:3000/users?end=30&_order=DESC&_sort=id&_start=0
Or, by looking at the other parameters:
http://localhost:3000/users?_end=30&_order=DESC&_sort=id&_start=0
with end or _end being the first parameter (mark the ?).
Update (it is ? and before the _, I have edited.):
If adding parameters to the request returns an empty list, try adding only one at a time to narrow down the problem (there's probably an error in the usage of those parameters - are you sure you need those underscores?).
Your REST API must have a way to handle pagination, sorting, and filtering. But ng-admin cannot determine exactly how, because REST is a style and not a standard. So ng-admin makes assumptions about how your API does that by default, that's why it adds these _end and _sort query parameters.
In order to transform these parameters into those that your API understands, you'll have to add an interceptor. This is all thoroughly explained in the ng-admin documentation: http://ng-admin-book.marmelab.com/doc/API-mapping.html
My team has just started creating RESTful services for data that has previously been handled by a large monolithic legacy application. We want to document the api with Swagger UI and I have set up with one problem.
I need to pass a SAML token as a header parameter, otherwise when we try to click on the "Try it out!" button I get a 401 Authentication error. How do I add a field to the Swagger UI so that someone can put a String for a SAML token to be sent in the request?
This is actually really easy. I saw references to the answer in the documentation but I didn't really understand what it was saying. There is a field at the top next to where your service URL goes and you can use that field to input a string to pass as a header value. That input field has an id of #input_apiKey.
Then in the index.html file you just add a line to the addApiKeyAuthorization() javascript function telling it to take the value of that field and pass it as whatever value you need.
Example:
function addApiKeyAuthorization(){
var key = $('#input_apiKey')[0].value;
if(key && key.trim() != "") {
swaggerUi.api.clientAuthorizations.add("samlToken", new SwaggerClient.ApiKeyAuthorization("samlToken", key, "header"));
swaggerUi.api.clientAuthorizations.add("Content-Type", new SwaggerClient.ApiKeyAuthorization("Content-Type", "application/json", "header"));
swaggerUi.api.clientAuthorizations.add("Accept", new SwaggerClient.ApiKeyAuthorization("Accept", "application/json", "header"));
}
}
$('#input_apiKey').change(addApiKeyAuthorization);
This sets the Content-Type and Accept headers to the same values for every request, and takes the value in that input field at the top of the page in the green header and sets it as my SAML token. So now if I paste in a valid SAML string my request works and I get data back!
I'm running into a problem with adding a query to the callback URL. I'm getting an invalid URI scheme error attempting to authorize the following string:
https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/authorization?response_type=code&client_id=75df1ocpxohk88&scope=rw_groups%20w_messages%20r_basicprofile%20r_contactinfo%20r_network&state=7a6c697d357e4921aeb1ba3793d7af5a&redirect_uri=http://marktest.clubexpress.com/basic_modules/club_admin/website/auth_callback.aspx?type=linkedin
I've read some conflicting information in forum posts here. Some say that it's possible to add query strings to callbacks, and others say that it results in error.
If I remove ?type=linkedin, I can authorize just fine and receive the token. It would make my life so much easier if I could use a query string on the callback url, as I need to do some additional processing in the callback.
In short, can I append a query string to the end of the callback url?
For fun, I tried encoding the callback url in the request (obviously this is a no-no according to their documentation):
https://www.linkedin.com/uas/oauth2/authorization?response_type=code&client_id=75df1ocpxohk88&scope=rw_groups%20w_messages%20r_basicprofile%20r_contactinfo%20r_network&state=5cabef71d89149d48df523558bd12121&redirect_uri=http%3a%2f%2fmarktest.clubexpress.com%2fbasic_modules%2fclub_admin%2fwebsite%2fauth_callback.aspx%3ftype%3dlinkedin
This also resulted in an error but was worth a shot.
The documetation here: https://developer.linkedin.com/forum/oauth-20-redirect-url-faq-invalid-redirecturi-error indicates that you CAN use query parameters. And in the first request, it appears that I'm doing it correctly. Post #25 on this page - https://developer.linkedin.com/forum/error-while-getting-access-token indicates that you have to remove the query parameters to make it work
Anyone have experience with successfully passing additional query paramaters in the callback url for the linkedin API using oAuth2.0? If so, what am I doing wrong?
I couldn't wait around for the Linkedin rep's to respond. After much experimentation, I can only surmise that the use of additional query parameters in the callback is not allowed (thanks for making my application more complicated). As it's been suggested in post #25 from the question, I've tucked away the things I need in the "state=" parameter of the request so that it's returned to my callback.
In my situation, I'm processing multiple API's from my callback and requests from multiple users, so I need to know the type and user number. As a solution, I'm attaching a random string to a prefix, so that I can extract the query parameter in my callback and process it. Each state= will therefore be unique as well as giving me a unique key to cache/get object from cache..
so state="Linkedin-5hnx5322d3-543"
so, on my callback page (for you c# folks)
_stateString=Request["state"];
_receivedUserId = _stateString.Split('-')[2];
_receivedCacheKeyPrefix = _stateString.Split('-')[0];
if(_receivedCacheKeyPrefix == "Linkedin") {
getUserDomain(_receivedUserId);
oLinkedIn.AccessTOkenGet(Request["code"],_userDomain);
if (oLinkedin.Token.Length > 0) {
_linkedinToken = oLinkedin.Token;
//now cache token using the entire _statestring and user id (removed for brevity)
}
You not allowed to do that.
Refer to the doc: https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/oauth2
Please note that:
We strongly recommend using HTTPS whenever possible
URLs must be absolute (e.g. "https://example.com/auth/callback", not "/auth/callback")
URL arguments are ignored (i.e. https://example.com/?id=1 is the same as https://example.com/)
URLs cannot include #'s (i.e. "https://example.com/auth/callback#linkedin" is invalid)