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Extend Endpoint Authentication types

Mario Santos Dynamicweb Employee
Mario Santos
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Hi,

Working with 3rd party endpooints, we were looking for a way to use the Endpoint Manager to store those, but seem to have hit a snag because of the Authentication.
Considering the Authentication types, we've came across 2 distinct situations:

  • Single-use/Dynamic Bearer Token
    • Essentially we need to call a specific endpoint to get a token (submitting certain parameters), rather than being a value we can introduce
  • Bearer Token, but submitting a few other header parameters
    • Those can vary

And then obviously, each API will have their own schema, so it's would be hard to configure how to interpret the response and/or how to read the expected value.
So far, looks like we cannot extend the Authentication Types, so we're trying to figure out if we missed anything OR if it can be turned into a Provider Based list, so that we can extend with custom authentication needs.


Additional Info
The use case for this is for use to communicate with 3rd party endpoints that would return data in json or xml or whatever format and store those as a file (request triggered by a scheduled task), that are later used, for instante in a Data Integration job

 

 

BR Mario


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Adrian Ursu Dynamicweb Employee
Adrian Ursu
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+1

We have been looking for something similar for a while already.

Working with Odata endpoints is a lot easier if they are defined in the interface.

Thank you,
Adrian

 
Rasmus Sanggaard Dynamicweb Employee
Rasmus Sanggaard
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Hi,

Making the authentications provider based is something we are considering, but no plans for it yet. If we are going to do it, I think it would be for DW10 only. 

BR Rasmus Sanggaard

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