Ricardo Silva
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Hello.

I'm developing a mobile app which is consuming a REST API that requires basic authentication. I need the username/password values to come from a user input. However, I don't seem to understand how to set those values other than by hardcoding them in the required field.

What's the way to do this?

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on 2017-03-09
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João Amorim
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Hi Ricardo

To do this dynamically you'll have to build the Authorization header yourself. The correct format is:

"Basic " + EncodeToBase64(username:password)

In a REST API, add an input parameter with the name Authorization that is sent in header:

Then add the reference to the methods BinaryToBase64 and TextToBinaryData from the BinaryData extension, and assign the following value to the input parameter:

Let me know if it works for you

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df fe
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Hi, I have problem when I try to use "TextToBinaryData" and "BinaryToBase64" in outsystems 11, it showed Unknown function for both "TextToBinaryData" and "BinaryToBase64".


João Amorim wrote:

Hi Ricardo

To do this dynamically you'll have to build the Authorization header yourself. The correct format is:

"Basic " + EncodeToBase64(username:password)

In a REST API, add an input parameter with the name Authorization that is sent in header:

Then add the reference to the methods BinaryToBase64 and TextToBinaryData from the BinaryData extension, and assign the following value to the input parameter:

Let me know if it works for you



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Ricardo Silva
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It worked perfectly, thank you!

Just one more question, is it possible to do it for the REST API itself, instead of doing it in every request?

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João Amorim
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Unfortunately you'll have to add the header for each method, but you can encapsulate the encoding part in a single function to be reused

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Ricardo Silva
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ok, thank you very much for the help

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Ozan Cali
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Hi @df fe,

You will need to start using dependencies (via Manage Dependencies window in Service Studio) of the actions "TextToBinaryData" and "BinaryToBase64". They are in the BinaryData producer module.

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