RestUtility does not add token to url

Berend Veldkamp

November 28, 2014 20:29

Hi,

 

In a custom module, I'm trying to make a request to a (geocortex) REST endpoint. This works, but not in a secured site. In that case I get an error message The current user cannot access the desired resource .

While looking at the actual request, I noticed that it does not contain a token, and if I add it manually, the request is succesful. Is this a bug in the HTML viewer, or should I add it myself? I seem to remember that this did work in the SL viewer.

 

Typescript code:

var restUtility = new geocortex.essentials.RestUtility();

 

restUtility.getCustomRestEndpoint(url, "", (result: geocortex.essentials.RestEndpointResult) => {

 

    if (!result.error) {

 

        // Process results

 

    }

 

}, this.queryErrorHandler, null);

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  Berend Veldkamp

  December 02, 2014 17:25

  Hi Alejandro,

   

  Thanks for that. The 2nd parameter of getCustomRestEndpoint should be a string though, so I guess it would have to be something like this "token={0}".format(this.myToken) ? BTW, isn't the RestUtility supposed to add the token by itself?

   

  One more question: I can get the token by listening to the AuthenticationSucceeded event, but what happens if that token expires? Will the system automatically generate a new token and raise the event again ? (What's the expiration time anyway?)

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  Berend Veldkamp

  December 02, 2014 21:50

  I think the definition for getCustomRestEndpoint() in essentials.d.ts is not correct. The 2nd parameter is defined as a string:

  public getCustomRestEndpoint(endpointUrl: string, content: string , completeHandler: (res: essentials.RestEndpointResult) => void, errorHandler: (error: Error) => void, options: Object): void;

  but is handled as an object. For example, I can't pass { "abc": "xyz" } to it ('Supplied parameters do not match any signature of call target'), but if I pass "abc=xyz", the parameters in the url look like &0=a&1=b&2=c&3=%3D&4=x&5=y&6=z&.

   

  What works now is to just ignore the 2nd param, and add any param to the url directly:

  restUtility.getCustomRestEndpoint("{0}&token={1}".format(url, this.myToken), "", (result: geocortex.essentials.RestEndpointResult) => { ...

   

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  Permanently deleted user

  December 02, 2014 22:51

  I had that exact same issue, I just went into the d.ts file and changed the defiinition to content: any so I could pass in a dictionary of values

  That's the way it was defined in the 5.1 api or so, it changed recently to content:string, not sure why.

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  Permanently deleted user

  December 03, 2014 00:33

  (version number off), somewhere like 2.1 => 2.3 

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  Berend Veldkamp

  December 03, 2014 15:56

  Hi Alejandro,

  Thanks for the clarification, it does make sense to not include the token automatically. I think I got confused by the similar method in the SL viewer, which does that. At least, IIRC.

  Berend

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