topic Re: REST API Authorization in Alfresco Forum

REST API Authorization

kwiesinger — Wed, 24 Jul 2019 12:45:32 GMT

Hi,I'm using the ADF-Framework and an Angular app with Typescript for my application.I want to get nodes via the REST API and the request works flawlessly with Postman. However with Postman I have this extra authorization field I don't have in Typescript.If I add a Header in my code for the request

Re: REST API Authorization

eugenio_romano — Fri, 02 Aug 2019 12:41:08 GMT

If you have to call Alfresco services is better to use the apiService:

https://github.com/Alfresco/alfresco-ng2-components/blob/development/docs/core/services/alfresco-api.service.md

Re: REST API Authorization

kwiesinger — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 13:16:34 GMT

But why can't I simply use the REST-API given by Alfresco?

I found out about my error beforehand and I simply forgot to encode my username and password. Now that I encoded everything and want to do it via Basic Authentication I still get a 401.

Re: REST API Authorization

abbask01 — Fri, 27 Sep 2019 06:49:32 GMT

All the services in ADF are based on Alfresco REST v1 APIs. old webscripts should be called using ApiService as mentioned by @eugenio_romano

Re: REST API Authorization

d_m — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 06:49:10 GMT

Hi kwiesinger,

I think that an example can make this clearer for you:

This is a service method from my code:

constructor(
  private alfrescoApiService: AlfrescoApiService,
  private errorHandlerService: ErrorHandlerService
) {
  this.alfrescoApi = alfrescoApiService.getInstance();
}


getSites(preset: string😞 Promise<SitePaging> {
let options: object = {orderBy: 'title'};

 if (preset) {
options = {where: `(preset=\'${preset}\')`, orderBy: 'title'};
 }

return new WebscriptApi(this.alfrescoApi).executeWebScript(
'GET',
 'sites',
 options,
 null,
 'api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1',
 null
 ).catch(
this.errorHandlerService.handlePromiseError<SitePaging>()
);
}

It basically executes the following REST call:

https://www.my-alfrescoserver.com/alfresco/api/-default-/public/alfresco/versions/1/sites?preset=%preset%&orderBy=title

Authentication and call handling is done by ADF.

Re: REST API Authorization

kwiesinger — Tue, 01 Oct 2019 17:19:01 GMT

Thank you for your reply, this was really helpfull and I will try it ASAP.

So it is not only Read-Only? (I read it somewhere in the Alfresco wiki).
Also due to the fact that I'm new to angular (learned it a few months ago): I can't simply use the HttpClient for this? I have to write/ use this Webscript API?

Is there a complete documentation in general about this Javascript API, I find github a bit confusing.

Regards