Authentication API
API change historyReturns access token.
"Bearer authentication (also called token authentication) is an HTTP authentication scheme that involves security tokens called bearer tokens. The client must send this token in the "Authorization" header when making requests to protected resources: "Authorization: Bearer <token>.
Try itRequest
Request URL
Request headers
-
(optional)stringMedia type of the body sent to the API.
Request body
Contains client id and client secret.
{
"clientId": "string",
"clientSecret": "string",
"audienceUrl": "string"
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"clientId": {
"type": "string"
},
"clientSecret": {
"type": "string"
},
"audienceUrl": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
}
}
{
"clientId": "string",
"clientSecret": "string",
"audienceUrl": "string"
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"clientId": {
"type": "string"
},
"clientSecret": {
"type": "string"
},
"audienceUrl": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
}
}
{
"clientId": "string",
"clientSecret": "string",
"audienceUrl": "string"
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"clientId": {
"type": "string"
},
"clientSecret": {
"type": "string"
},
"audienceUrl": {
"type": "string",
"format": "uri"
}
}
}
Responses
200 OK
Access token.
Representations
{
"type": "string"
}
string
{
"type": "string"
}
string
{
"type": "string"
}
400 Bad Request
Representations
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int32"
},
"detail": {
"type": "string"
},
"instance": {
"type": "string"
},
"extensions": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {}
}
}
}
{
"type": "string",
"title": "string",
"status": 0,
"detail": "string",
"instance": "string",
"extensions": {}
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int32"
},
"detail": {
"type": "string"
},
"instance": {
"type": "string"
},
"extensions": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {}
}
}
}
{
"type": "string",
"title": "string",
"status": 0,
"detail": "string",
"instance": "string",
"extensions": {}
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int32"
},
"detail": {
"type": "string"
},
"instance": {
"type": "string"
},
"extensions": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {}
}
}
}
401 Unauthorized
Representations
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int32"
},
"detail": {
"type": "string"
},
"instance": {
"type": "string"
},
"extensions": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {}
}
}
}
{
"type": "string",
"title": "string",
"status": 0,
"detail": "string",
"instance": "string",
"extensions": {}
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int32"
},
"detail": {
"type": "string"
},
"instance": {
"type": "string"
},
"extensions": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {}
}
}
}
{
"type": "string",
"title": "string",
"status": 0,
"detail": "string",
"instance": "string",
"extensions": {}
}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string"
},
"title": {
"type": "string"
},
"status": {
"type": "integer",
"format": "int32"
},
"detail": {
"type": "string"
},
"instance": {
"type": "string"
},
"extensions": {
"type": "object",
"additionalProperties": {}
}
}
}
500 Internal Server Error
Representations
Code samples
@ECHO OFF
curl -v -X POST "https://api.cobuilder.com/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
--data-ascii "{body}"
using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;
namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
static class Program
{
static void Main()
{
MakeRequest();
Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
Console.ReadLine();
}
static async void MakeRequest()
{
var client = new HttpClient();
var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
// Request headers
var uri = "https://api.cobuilder.com/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token?" + queryString;
HttpResponseMessage response;
// Request body
byte[] byteData = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("{body}");
using (var content = new ByteArrayContent(byteData))
{
content.Headers.ContentType = new MediaTypeHeaderValue("< your content type, i.e. application/json >");
response = await client.PostAsync(uri, content);
}
}
}
}
// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;
public class JavaSample
{
public static void main(String[] args)
{
HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();
try
{
URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.cobuilder.com/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token");
URI uri = builder.build();
HttpPost request = new HttpPost(uri);
request.setHeader("Content-Type", "application/json");
// Request body
StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
request.setEntity(reqEntity);
HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();
if (entity != null)
{
System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
}
}
catch (Exception e)
{
System.out.println(e.getMessage());
}
}
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>JSSample</title>
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(function() {
var params = {
// Request parameters
};
$.ajax({
url: "https://api.cobuilder.com/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token?" + $.param(params),
beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
// Request headers
xhrObj.setRequestHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
},
type: "POST",
// Request body
data: "{body}",
})
.done(function(data) {
alert("success");
})
.fail(function() {
alert("error");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>
int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
NSString* path = @"https://api.cobuilder.com/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token";
NSArray* array = @[
// Request parameters
@"entities=true",
];
NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];
NSLog(@"%@", path);
NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
[_request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
// Request headers
[_request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
// Request body
[_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
NSURLResponse *response = nil;
NSError *error = nil;
NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
if (nil != error)
{
NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
}
else
{
NSError* error = nil;
NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
if (nil != _connectionData)
{
json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
}
if (error || !json)
{
NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
}
NSLog(@"%@", json);
_connectionData = nil;
}
[pool drain];
return 0;
}
<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';
$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.cobuilder.com/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token');
$url = $request->getUrl();
$headers = array(
// Request headers
'Content-Type' => 'application/json',
);
$request->setHeader($headers);
$parameters = array(
// Request parameters
);
$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);
$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_POST);
// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");
try
{
$response = $request->send();
echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
echo $ex;
}
?>
########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
params = urllib.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.cobuilder.com')
conn.request("POST", "/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64
headers = {
# Request headers
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
}
params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
})
try:
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.cobuilder.com')
conn.request("POST", "/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
response = conn.getresponse()
data = response.read()
print(data)
conn.close()
except Exception as e:
print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))
####################################
require 'net/http'
uri = URI('https://api.cobuilder.com/authentication/api/v1/oauth2/token')
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
http.request(request)
end
puts response.body