SDM: PowerShell REST API - Access Key - no results and no errors

[J W]

SDM 14.1 and 17.1

PowerShell v4

 

I have experience in SOAP but not so much REST.

I am trying to get an access_key but there is no result and no errors.

 

Looking over the online product documents; the SDK samples, and community posts, e.g.. REST webservices , Obtain Access Key didn't help me.

 

# Force TLS 1.2
###############
[System.Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12;

# Build request
###############
$RESTAPIServer = "<server>"
$RESTAPIUser = "<user>"
$RESTAPIPassword = "<password>"

$BaseAuthURL = "http://" + $RESTAPIServer + ":8050/caisd-rest/rest_access"
$BaseURL = "http://" + $RESTAPIServer + ":8050/caisd-rest"
$Header = @{"Authorization" = "Basic "+[System.Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::UTF8.GetBytes($RESTAPIUser+":"+$RESTAPIPassword))}
$Body = "<rest_access/>"
$ContentType = "application/xml;charset=UTF-8"

# Make the request
##################

Try
{
    $SDMSessionResponse = Invoke-RestMethod -Uri $BaseAuthURL -Headers $Header -Method POST -ContentType $ContentType -Body $Body -Verbose -PassThru -OutFile "C:\access_key.txt"
}
Catch
{
    Get-Date -Format g
    $_.Exception.ToString()
    $error[0] | Format-List -Force
}

# Displaying the response

$SDMSessionResponse
## Extracting the access key from the response
$SDMSessionHeader = @{'SDM-api-session-id' = $SDMSessionResponse.value}

$SDMSessionHeader

 

I have verbose enabled and am sending to a file as well as screen.

 

Results:

 

The VERBOSE message isn't helpful.  The first line is expected for a POST action and the second says 293 bytes were return but it's not - it's too many for what is shown in $SDMSessionResponse

 

$SDMSessionHeader shows no value.  The access_key.txt file is likewise 0 bytes.

 

 I get access_keys using both SoapUI and Postman but I don't see any difference in the raw code and my construct.

 

Postman:

POST /caisd-rest/rest_access HTTP/1.1
Host: <server>:8050
Content-Type: application/xml
Authorization: Basic <Base 64 content>
cache-control: no-cache
Postman-Token: bc76dce9-ba73-44e1-b71b-93ae48963fc5
<rest_access/>------WebKitFormBoundary7MA4YWxkTrZu0gW--

 

SoapUI:

POST http://<server>:8050/caisd-rest/rest_access HTTP/1.1
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Content-Type: application/xml
Content-Length: 15
Host: <server>:8050
Connection: Keep-Alive
User-Agent: Apache-HttpClient/4.1.1 (java 1.5)
Authorization: Basic <Base 64 content>

I have tried adding the Content-Length in the header - although it appears to be optional - with the same results.

 

Hopefully, I just need a fresh pair of eyes on this to point out something obvious.

 

TIA,

 

J.W.

[Raghu Rudraraju]

J.W.,

 

Can you check if :  rest_webservice_resources_to_expose   is deinstalled?  If not, make sure you add appropriate objects that you do want to expose here.

 

Do look into this option too:  This should be normally set to No + Installed: rest_webservice_disable_basic_auth   

 

 

_R

[Grant Bruneau]

I think you've actually got it but are not looking in the correct object. Check the rest_access attribute of the $SDMSessionResponse object. The access key should be accessible via $SDMSessionResponse.rest_access.access_key.

[Raghu Rudraraju]

Sorry, I misunderstood your post JW, did not realize you said you got keys via SOAPUI+Postman  but only did not get them via powershell.  Grant's suggestion should help here

 

_R

[J W]

Yes, that was it.

 

RTFM

 

Thanks!

 

J.W.