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4.15 Authenticate Against the Viewpoint Template API

The Viewpoint Template API requires users to authenticate to it using cookies.

This topic provides an example on how to authenticate using cURL to get a valid cookie that can be used to validate your access.

Do the following:

Create the following script:

#!/bin/bash

REQUEST_METHOD=$1

REQUEST_URL=$2

LOGIN_URL=http://localhost:8080/login/

YOUR_USER='moab-admin'

YOUR_PASS='changeme!'

COOKIES=cookies.txt

CURL_BIN="curl -s -c $COOKIES -b $COOKIES -e $LOGIN_URL"

echo "Django Auth: get csrftoken ..."

$CURL_BIN $LOGIN_URL > /dev/null

DJANGO_TOKEN="csrfmiddlewaretoken=$(grep cid $COOKIES | sed 's/^.*cid\s*//')"

echo "DJANGO TOKEN is $DJANGO_TOKEN"

echo "######################################################"

echo "Performing login..."

$CURL_BIN \

    -d "$DJANGO_TOKEN&uName=$YOUR_USER&pwd=$YOUR_PASS" \

    -X POST $LOGIN_URL

echo "######################################################"

echo "Request: $REQUEST_METHOD $REQUEST_URL"

$CURL_BIN \

    -d "$DJANGO_TOKEN&..." \

    -X $REQUEST_METHOD \

    -H "Accept:Application/json" \

    $REQUEST_URL \

    | python -m json.tool

rm $COOKIES

Consume the API by running this script:

./iris-curl.sh GET "http://localhost:8080/api/templates/"