I'm working with the JIRA API (without library) and I need to find out the configured time zone of the current user. I see that there is a library by JIRA that has a method getUserTimeZoneInfo. What would be the equivalent http call?
I've searched and searched in google... nothing's coming up. I'm hoping it's just my choice of search terms.
Using the JIRA REST API you can achieve this simply making the following call:
https://YourJiraServerAddress/rest/api/latest/user?username=YourUsername
You will find the loaded "timeZone" field in the response message.
and yes, don't forget to authenticate yourself...
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I'm using the outlook calendar rest api from Salesforce. To continuously leverage the calendar API I need to get authorisation code, access and refresh token.
I have been able to get the Authorisation code by hitting the API. How to get the access token using development code to use the outlook calendar rest API.
Please find the list of AAD authentication libraries here:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/active-directory/develop/active-directory-authentication-libraries
I found this tutorial in Python very helpful for getting access codes:
This tutorial uses Microsoft Graph (which covers several Microsoft products including Microsoft Outlook) rather than the outlook REST API (which covers just Outlook).
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/rest/python-tutorial
At first, I thought setting up a Django server was overkill. Then I realized that I wanted a way for my Python instance to capture the access code after going through single-sign-on. (I MUST use my browser for single-sign-on because my institution uses multi-factor authentation.) Having a Django server is a natural way to do this.
So I created a new PyCharm Django project (which is straight-forward in PyCharm) and began following the tutorial.
I found it essential to continue following the tutorial all the way through displaying my emails to avoid getting authentication errors -- deviate from the tutorial, and I got error messages (such as this one) that were unpenetrable.
I have been researching Jira REST api in order to grab all the test cases inside my structures but I haven't had any luck. The closes I have been to getting inside a structure is using the URL $baseUrl/rest/structure/2.0/structure. From there I tried to manipulate the url into giving me all the information about a specific structure.
For example, I used $baseUrl/rest/structure/2.0/structure/$id but I only got back
{"id":135,"name":"TEST PLAN 1","description":""}
There is hardly any information in this REST api call. IS there a way to have it list out all the issue keys(test cases) in the structure i pick?
Information Regarding JIRA Structure REST API is posted here https://wiki.almworks.com/display/structure/Forest+Resource
Edit:
Initially, the question was how to get an Office365 calendar in JSON without authentication; but, what I meant was how to get an Office365 calendar in JSON without requiring the OAuth2 step (so, for example on the server-side other authentication methods are acceptable to retrieve the calendar data).
Problem:
I would like to use the Office 365 REST API to access this published calendar (i.e. the "read" operation only since the calendar is published), so that I can "style" the calendar the way I prefer. So, I am looking for a public API approach to using one of my calendars. The code examples for the Office 365 REST API that I found use OAuth to authenticate the client. This seems like overkill.
I have come up with some possible solutions, so any suggestions on the best approach is welcome.
Background:
I have a published calendar in Office365, which gives me a feed:
http://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/USER#DOMAIN/CALENDAR_NAME/calendar.ics
and the URL:
http://outlook.office365.com/owa/calendar/USER#DOMAIN/CALENDAR_NAME/calendar.html
How can I do what "calendar.html" is doing, so that I can display a calendar the way I would like it to be displayed (instead of IFraming what Office365 provides)?
Example:
Here is an example URL using the REST API:
https://outlook.office365.com/api/v1.0/users/USER#DOMAIN/calendars
The browser will bring up a basic authentication dialog, so it looks like OAuth is not the only method required (one possible solution, the request could be proxied from a local server that is calling the REST API using basic authentication).
Issues:
One issue might be that the calendar "publishing" feature is meant for a limited amount of data (e.g. 1 year prior or in the future at the most) which is what I assume is what the iCalendar (*.ics) file would contain for any request.
Using the REST API with authentication assumes that there isn't a date range restriction (since one can query the calendar using the REST API, I assume you could query further back than a year).
Possible solutions:
Proxy the request from another server by making the REST API calls using basic authentication. Caching might also be needed since it appears the response times could be slow. The calendar could be either JavaScript that consumes a local endpoint, or HTML content generated at the server.
It looks like the Office365 AuthenticationContext.AcquireTokenAsync() will accept a ClientCredential (client id and secret) or also a UserCredential (simple username and password). So, I think I can run a local proxy service that uses the Office365 library by manually passing in credentials to the function that acquires a token. (I still need to test this to make sure that the function will indeed work this way.)
Simply iFrame the "calendar.html" page provide by Office 365. (Cross domain is prevented, unless it's on one of the Microsoft hosted solutions "Something Webs".)
If using the iCalendar (*.ics) feed, then one would need a transformation function for the iCalendar format to JSON (https://github.com/kewisch/ical.js), then JavaScript or a calendar library could be used to design a custom calendar. (This wouldn't be very convenient for viewing a year's worth of calendar events without cashing and providing a querying mechanism, except for displaying one month back and forward. So, some sort of ics2json to use on FullCalendar might work for only a couple months of calendar history.)
Any suggestions on the best approach (or another approach not listed here) is welcome.
The Office 365 APIs require Oauth2 in order to function. If you are using Visual Studio to develop your app, the O365 tools for Visual Studio + OWIN middleware will handle a lot of the oauth work for you.
If oauth is absolutely not an option, I'd consider using the EWS APIs instead, which can use basic authentication (more info on that here on MSDN).
is there a way to fetch the venues search in iOS without the user entering his password or showing some foursquare oauth website?
I don't think that this oAuth makes any sense for this kind of request, it should be just an REST api like so "https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?ll=-27.58818,-48.523248&client_id=JN00ABQBOCK5V54FQ1TWQFLOOIDU12UAZXURHXGXNK0ESJBY&client_secret=14ES1NXTCL1XC5HSLBUT4LWE4ROEDGNYKKWGGERZQGUKQ5JC"
but this one is deprecated =/
Any thoughts?
It's not deprecated, you're just missing the "versioning" parameter that specifies what version of the API you're trying to use.
Requesting https://api.foursquare.com/v2/venues/search?ll=-27.58818,-48.523248&client_id=JN00ABQBOCK5V54FQ1TWQFLOOIDU12UAZXURHXGXNK0ESJBY&client_secret=14ES1NXTCL1XC5HSLBUT4LWE4ROEDGNYKKWGGERZQGUKQ5JC&v=20111107 will remove the warning you saw in your response
Add a query string parameter to your request as follows..
&v=20111119 // Choose a proper version.
Update: this is actually a date. So make sure you send current date in yyyymmdd format against v parameter.
According to FourSquare's docs page on venue searching an acting user is no longer necessary:
Some endpoints (e.g. venue search) allow you to not act as any
particular user. We will return unpersonalized data suitable for
generic use, and the performance should be slightly better. In these
cases, pass your client ID as client_id and your client secret as
client_secret. Although the draft 11 of the OAuth2 spec provides a
mechanism for consumers to act via token entitled Client Credentials,
we do not currently support this.
I've never used an API and was wondering how you use them... I would like to use facebook, twitter and vimeo's api,
Can someone explain the basics of using them, how do i access them and use them etc.
Please and thanks
Neil
How to use an API depends on the API. Usually the API creator has documentation on how to use their specific API.
Mostly, things work like the following:
You register to get a developer key. Then, you send requests to the service via HTTP (for example Twitter is using REST, which requires you to send XML or JSON to a specific http-URL providing your key). You get an answer from the service, which you must then parse and react to accordingly (for example filling a list with contacts, etc.).
Most of the time this all comes down to:
Create an XML or JSON document that describes the call parameters
Send the document to an URL using GET, POST or other request methods
Get the server's response
Parse and evaluate the response
The specific ways to use the API, especially performing authentication, can be found on the service's developer pages.
The best way to start if you want to use an API is to read it's documentation, find some tutorials and code examples. This is always/usually published by the one offering an API.
Good luck :)