quite new to this been learning about API's in Ruby. Using an Emails service's API to create a user in a system.
This is an example of the POST:
POST http://localhost:8080/core/postgres-pages-xy/api/rest/v4/user/create?email=user003#test.invalid HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Basic bWFzdGVyQGVuubXVjLmVjaXJjbGUuZGU6aDhuc3d1cnN0
User-Agent: curl/7.29.0
Host: localhost:8080
Proxy-Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type:application/json
Accept:application/json
Content-Length: 86
[{"name":"user.FirstName","value":"Stan"}, {"name":"user.LastName", "value":"Laurel"}]
I think I am close(ish)? in Ruby was hoping someone would tell me how I send my authentication through. System requires login headers not sure how to do that, will be an email and a password:
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
uri = URI("https://site.com/api/rest/v4/user/create?email=ruby1#ruby.com")
https = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.path)
request.basic_auth 'email', 'pass'
request["user.FirstName"] = 'Liam'
request["user.LastName"] = 'Coates'
response = https.request(request)
puts response
Thanks for feedback or learnings.
You can enter the credentials in the URL:
url = "http://username:password#localhost:8080/core/postgres-pages-xy/api/rest/v4/user/create"
If the username and password are there, it should automatically do HTTP basic auth (source).
However supposedly this is deprecated, so there is a longer solution:
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri)
req.basic_auth 'user', 'pass'
res = Net::HTTP.start(uri.hostname, uri.port) {|http|
http.request(req)
}
puts res.body
Related
Have a query on making a https Get call with headers. I tried the following
uri = URI.parse("https:\\www.someurl.com")
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
# Following is where I am adding the header
req['Auth'] = "Bearer" + #token
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host,uri.port) do |http|
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new uri.request_uri
http.request request
end
puts(response.body)
I see the following error
400 The plain HTTP request was sent to HTTPS port
I tried searching and what I have found is that Net::HTTP.get supports https calls but without headers.
The call that I am making is via API gateway, so I will have to add a token in the header.
Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You need to use use_ssl: true.
uri = URI('https://secure.example.com/some_path?query=string')
response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, use_ssl: true) do |http|
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)
request['Authentication'] = "Bearer %s" % #token
http.request(request)
end
So here's the request using curl:
curl -XPOST -H content-type:application/json -d "{\"credentials\":{\"username\":\"username\",\"key\":\"key\"}}" https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.1/auth
I've been trying to make this same request using ruby, but I can't seem to get it to work.
I tried a couple of libraries also, but I can't get it to work.
Here's what I have so far:
uri = URI.parse("https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/v1.1/auth")
request.set_form_data({'credentials' => {'username' => 'username', 'key' => 'key'}})
response = http.request(request)
I get a 415 unsupported media type error.
You are close, but not quite there. Try something like this instead:
uri = URI.parse("https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/v1.1/auth")
request.add_field('Content-Type', 'application/json')
request.body = {'credentials' => {'username' => 'username', 'key' => 'key'}}.to_json
response = http.request(request)
This will set the Content-Type header as well as post the JSON in the body, rather than in the form data as your code had it. With the sample credentials, it still fails, but I suspect it should work with real data in there.
There's a very good explanation of how to make a JSON POST request with Net::HTTP at this link.
I would recommend using a library like HTTParty. It's well-documented, you can just set up your class like so:
class RackSpaceClient
include HTTParty
base_uri "https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/"
format :json
headers 'Accept' => 'application/json'
#methods to do whatever
end
It looks like the main difference between the Ruby code you placed there, and the curl request, is that the curl request is POSTing JSON (content-type application/json) to the endpoint, whereas request.set_form_data is going to send a form in the body of the POST request (content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded). You have to make sure the content going both ways is of type application/json.
All others are too long here is a ONE LINER:
Net::HTTP.start('auth.api.rackspacecloud.com', :use_ssl => true).post(
'/v1.1/auth', {:credentials => {:username => "username",:key => "key"}}.to_json,
initheader={'Content-Type' => 'application/json'}
)
* to_json needs require 'json'
OR if you want to
NOT verify the hosts
be more readable
ensure the connection is closed once you're done
then:
ssl_opts={:use_ssl => true, :verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE}
Net::HTTP.start('auth.api.rackspacecloud.com', ssl_opts) { |secure_connection|
secure_connection.post(
'/v1.1/auth', {:credentials => {:username => "username",:key => "key"}}.to_json,
initheader={'Content-Type' => 'application/json'}
)
}
In case it's tough to remember what params go where:
SSL options are per connection so you specify them while opening the connection.
You can reuse the connection for multiple REST calls to same base url. Think of thread safety of course.
Header is a "request header" and hence specified per request. I.e. in calls to get/post/patch/....
HTTP.start(): Creates a new Net::HTTP object, then additionally opens the TCP connection and HTTP session.
HTTP.new(): Creates a new Net::HTTP object without opening a TCP connection or HTTP session.
Another example:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'
full_url = "http://" + options[:artifactory_url] + "/" + "api/build/promote/" + options[:build]
puts "Artifactory url: #{full_url}"
data = {
status: "staged",
comment: "Tested on all target platforms.",
ciUser: "builder",
#timestamp: "ISO8601",
dryRun: false,
targetRepo: "#{options[:target]}",
copy: true,
artifacts: true,
dependencies: false,
failFast: true,
}
uri = URI.parse(full_url)
headers = {'Content-Type' => "application/json", 'Accept-Encoding'=> "gzip,deflate",'Accept' => "application/json" }
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri, headers)
request.basic_auth(options[:user], options[:password])
request.body = data.to_json
response = http.request(request)
puts response.code
puts response.body
I am following Microsoft live connect API documentation to authorize my user to access onedrive. I am trying to stablish code flow authentication. I got the AUTHORIZATION_CODE as described. Now, I am trying to get the ACCESS_TOKEN with the help of that:
In Microsoft live connect API documentation, its said for getting ACCESS_TOKEN we need to provide a request such as,
POST https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf
Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
client_id=CLIENT_ID&redirect_uri=REDIRECT_URI&client_secret=CLIENT_SECRET&
code=AUTHORIZATION_CODE&grant_type=authorization_code
I provided the same request using ruby and got a error:
#<Net::HTTPBadRequest 400 Bad Request readbody=true>
Then I found in microsoft forum, that the request is GET not POST.
so, I created a GET request in ruby as follow:
access_code =params["code"]
uri = URI.parse("https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true if uri.scheme == 'https'
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
http.read_timeout = 500
req = Net::HTTP::Get.new("https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf",
initheader = {'Content-Type' =>'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'})
data = URI.encode_www_form({'client_id'=> 'my_client_id' ,
'redirect_uri' =>'my_redirect_url',
'client_secret' =>'my_client_secret',
'code'=>access_code, 'grant_type' =>'authorization_code'})
req.body = data
res = http.start { |http| http.request(req) }
When I run this I am getting the same HTTPBadRequest 400 error.
Note: I have checked the values of CLIENT_ID,REDIRECT_URI,CLIENT_SECRET,AUTHORIZATION_CODE it's all perfect.
I regret seeing that forum to solve this problem and wasted my time.
actually POST request will do good in this situation as show in thier documentation.
This is how I got the response,
uri = URI.parse("https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new("https://login.live.com/oauth20_token.srf")
req.content_type = "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
data = URI.encode_www_form({'client_id'=> 'my_client_id' , 'redirect_uri' =>'my_redirect_ui', 'client_secret' =>'my_client_secret', 'code'=>access_code, 'grant_type' =>'authorization_code'})
req.body = data
response = http.request(req)
I'd like to send a post from my Rails app to an API. I can get this to work using POSTMAN:
If I click on Preview in POSTMAN, it shows this as the request:
POST /api/users/status HTTP/1.1
Host:
Cache-Control: no-cache
----WebKitFormBoundaryE19zNvXGzXaLvS5C
Content-Disposition: form-data; name="params"
{"pgb": "sample_token", "token": "sample_token" }
----WebKitFormBoundaryE19zNvXGzXaLvS5C
Which is what I want to send. But I can't seem to replicate form-data when using Ruby's Net::HTTP::Post. Here's what I have so far, but this posts with x-www-form-urlencoded as the content-type:
url = URI.parse(ENV['URL'])
req = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url.path)
req.set_form_data({"params" => data.to_json})
https = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
https.use_ssl = true
https.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
https.set_debug_output $stdout
resp = https.request(req)
response = JSON.parse(resp.body)
Is there any way to post just form-data with ruby?
you could try using some of Ruby gems like Rest client. http://rubygems.org/gems/rest-client
Just type the following
gem install rest-client
The documentation can be found here http://rubygems.org/gems/rest-client.
So here's the request using curl:
curl -XPOST -H content-type:application/json -d "{\"credentials\":{\"username\":\"username\",\"key\":\"key\"}}" https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/v1.1/auth
I've been trying to make this same request using ruby, but I can't seem to get it to work.
I tried a couple of libraries also, but I can't get it to work.
Here's what I have so far:
uri = URI.parse("https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/v1.1/auth")
request.set_form_data({'credentials' => {'username' => 'username', 'key' => 'key'}})
response = http.request(request)
I get a 415 unsupported media type error.
You are close, but not quite there. Try something like this instead:
uri = URI.parse("https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com")
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new("/v1.1/auth")
request.add_field('Content-Type', 'application/json')
request.body = {'credentials' => {'username' => 'username', 'key' => 'key'}}.to_json
response = http.request(request)
This will set the Content-Type header as well as post the JSON in the body, rather than in the form data as your code had it. With the sample credentials, it still fails, but I suspect it should work with real data in there.
There's a very good explanation of how to make a JSON POST request with Net::HTTP at this link.
I would recommend using a library like HTTParty. It's well-documented, you can just set up your class like so:
class RackSpaceClient
include HTTParty
base_uri "https://auth.api.rackspacecloud.com/"
format :json
headers 'Accept' => 'application/json'
#methods to do whatever
end
It looks like the main difference between the Ruby code you placed there, and the curl request, is that the curl request is POSTing JSON (content-type application/json) to the endpoint, whereas request.set_form_data is going to send a form in the body of the POST request (content-type application/x-www-form-urlencoded). You have to make sure the content going both ways is of type application/json.
All others are too long here is a ONE LINER:
Net::HTTP.start('auth.api.rackspacecloud.com', :use_ssl => true).post(
'/v1.1/auth', {:credentials => {:username => "username",:key => "key"}}.to_json,
initheader={'Content-Type' => 'application/json'}
)
* to_json needs require 'json'
OR if you want to
NOT verify the hosts
be more readable
ensure the connection is closed once you're done
then:
ssl_opts={:use_ssl => true, :verify_mode => OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE}
Net::HTTP.start('auth.api.rackspacecloud.com', ssl_opts) { |secure_connection|
secure_connection.post(
'/v1.1/auth', {:credentials => {:username => "username",:key => "key"}}.to_json,
initheader={'Content-Type' => 'application/json'}
)
}
In case it's tough to remember what params go where:
SSL options are per connection so you specify them while opening the connection.
You can reuse the connection for multiple REST calls to same base url. Think of thread safety of course.
Header is a "request header" and hence specified per request. I.e. in calls to get/post/patch/....
HTTP.start(): Creates a new Net::HTTP object, then additionally opens the TCP connection and HTTP session.
HTTP.new(): Creates a new Net::HTTP object without opening a TCP connection or HTTP session.
Another example:
#!/usr/bin/ruby
require 'net/http'
require 'json'
require 'uri'
full_url = "http://" + options[:artifactory_url] + "/" + "api/build/promote/" + options[:build]
puts "Artifactory url: #{full_url}"
data = {
status: "staged",
comment: "Tested on all target platforms.",
ciUser: "builder",
#timestamp: "ISO8601",
dryRun: false,
targetRepo: "#{options[:target]}",
copy: true,
artifacts: true,
dependencies: false,
failFast: true,
}
uri = URI.parse(full_url)
headers = {'Content-Type' => "application/json", 'Accept-Encoding'=> "gzip,deflate",'Accept' => "application/json" }
http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(uri.request_uri, headers)
request.basic_auth(options[:user], options[:password])
request.body = data.to_json
response = http.request(request)
puts response.code
puts response.body