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AAB's avatar
AAB
Regular Contributor
6 years ago

Check and retrieve OAuth Token at project startup

Howdie,   I'm a little bit blured into the documentation of SmartBear.   I need to use an Access Token for some of my Webservice projects that are configured according our FSP. My Flow = Cl...
  • jsheph01's avatar
    jsheph01
    6 years ago

    Is there anything in the error log after you send a request from one of you tests cases? I copied that script and after I updated the profile name my token in auth manager was updated when I sent a request.

    Also the token name in the script does not match the token in the screen shot. Are these just from different projects?

     

    Side note:

    If you have multiple tokens for the same project take a look at this post. That script will update all the tokens for the current project. You may have to modify the scope of the "project" variable depending on what type of event you select.

    Auto Token Generation for OAuth2.0

richie's avatar
richie
Community Hero
6 years ago

Hi AAB 

 

I'm only adding my perspective cos I can answer 1 of your questions, but only 1

 

I was looking at implementing OAuth v2.0 auth for the project I was working on but in the end it was impossible to use the embedded ReadyAPI! functionality because the authentication/authorization process used was based on one of the granttypes available via OAuth v2.0 but had been customised to such a point that it was impossible to implement using the embedded ReadyAPI! functionality.

 

Anyway - so my response - yes you're right - we're API testing so its a little confusing why the help mentions simulating the actions of a user interacting with a web page.

HOWEVER - depending on the OAuth implementation as well as the grantype scheme you're using - content you need to grab (token values etc.) may be embedded within a web page - i.e. at a certain point in my very lengthy authentication process my tokens were contained in hidden .html fields in a web page.

 

There was no way to grab these token values from hidden .html fields - the Outline tab did not display the hidden fields - the HTML tab did display the fields but I couldn't scrape out the values from the HTML page using the embedded functionality - so this is one of the reasons simulating the users actions is mentioned in the help.

 

Ok - that's all the help I can provide on this

 

cheers,

 

rich

 

  • AAB's avatar
    AAB
    Regular Contributor
    6 years ago

    richie , Thanks for your time and the explanation. I was wondering about that webpage stuff but I wanted to make sure!  ;-)

    Anyway, I hope someone has a solution on it, otherwise I need to look further.

    Thanks man!

     

    Cheers,

    AboveAndBeyond