topic Re: REST in Alfresco Archive

REST

krigu — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 14:00:01 GMT

I'm new to Activiti and after playing around a bit I'm trying to call the REST-services from a GWT-built web application. I can call the login service (http://localhost:8080/activiti-rest/service/) and get the response {"success":true}After that call i build a new RequestBuilder and set the propert

Re: REST

ronald_van_kuij — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 16:39:19 GMT

please search the forum. Passing credentials in rest is done in another way…

Re: REST

smee82 — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:30:48 GMT

You have to use Http Basic Authentication with each Request you drop.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication

Re: REST

krigu — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 07:34:34 GMT

Thank you for the responses. I was able to solve the problem.

Re: REST

ronald_van_kuij — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 12:50:01 GMT

and exactly how did you solve the problem (so others can find it easily as well)

Re: REST

krigu — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:10:38 GMT

Sorry for the late replay, I enjoyed a few days off.

To use the REST-API you have to modify the request header and add "Authorization" (Key) and "Basic usernameassword" (Value). The username and the password need to be encoded with the Base64 algorithm.

Here is a small GWT code snipped:


    RequestBuilder builder = new RequestBuilder(RequestBuilder.POST, hostname + RequestURI);
    builder.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic "
        + Base64.encode(username.getValueAsString()
          + ":" + password.getValueAsString()));