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Amytav's avatar
Amytav
Occasional Contributor
3 years ago

Bearer Auth Token - How to pass as header for each API resource

Hello People, I am new to Ready API and API automation in general. For our API testing (JSON), initially we have to authorize with a bearer token in SWAGGER UI. Two API resources are present /auth/...
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mattb
Staff
3 years ago

Hi,

We have a few different options here.

You could use OAuth 1 or OAuth 2 profiles to retrieve those tokens in an automated fashion. You could also automatically refresh the token after a certain duration.
OAuth 1: https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/requests/auth/types/oauth1/index.html 
OAuth 2: https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/requests/auth/types/oauth2/index.htm 
        OAuth 2 Advanced options: https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/requests/auth/types/oauth2/advanced-options.html 

Or you could add a header parameter, and pass the token to an authentication header via get data. I think we should try the authentication profiles to start as we get more automation friendly advanced options. 

General auth page: https://support.smartbear.com/readyapi/docs/requests/auth/index.html 

  • sonya_m's avatar
    sonya_m
    SmartBear Alumni (Retired)
    3 years ago

    Thank you for the reply Matt!

     

    Hi Amytav, does this help?