Oracle Webcenter REST API Authentication

Question

Hi All,
I am getting authentication error while consuming the Webcenter REST API url http://webcenter.us.oracle.com/rest/api/resourceIndex.In Jdeveloper (URL Datacontrol)
So please help me where to Provide the authentication details.
Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi.
You need to add Authentication to your REST requests. Using Oracle WebCenter Portal REST APIs - 11g Release 1 (11.1.1.6.3)
From my experience, I always used REST API from a REST Java Wrapper done by a mate: Oracle Webcenter Portal & Content Tips: Using WebCenter REST API from Java
- Samples snippet of authentication:
When executing code inside of the domain use OIT:
b64EncodedToken = WCSecurityUtility.issueTrustServiceSecurityToken();
String auth = "OIT " + b64EncodedToken;
connection.setRequestProperty(AUTH_PROPERTY, auth);
When executing code for testing in your JUnit or outside, use directly BASIC authentication:
String userpass = "weblogic:weblogic1";
BASE64Encoder encoder = new BASE64Encoder();
b64EncodedToken = encoder.encode(userpass.getBytes());
String auth = "Basic " + b64EncodedToken;
Create a DataControl manually create an instance of the connection depending of the environment.
Take a look in the official documentation and in the blog entry links.
Regards.