How to negotiate a Plain text response from Mango 3.6 Rest API

[phildunlap]

The javac command doesn't look like mine. My -cp argument has no space in it, and has the Mango API lib directory as the second classpath location (they are semicolon delimited), and I did not provide an absolute path to the CustomizedRestController.java since I was in the same directory (but the issue with the class not found is to do with no API in the classpath argument).

[raylatbasix]

Thanks Phil,

I was able to get it to compile by switching to the C:\Mango356\web\modules\mangoApi\lib directory, and then use the following command:

javac -cp C:\Mango356\lib\*;C:\Mango356\web\modules\mangoApi\lib\* CustomizedRestController.java

I then copied the CustomizedRestController.class file that was created, to the C:\Mango356\web\modules\mangoApi\lib\com\infiniteautomation\mango\rest\v2 directory.

I then ran jar uf mango-api-3.6.0.jar com/infiniteautomation/mango/rest/v2/CustomizedRestController.class and did not recieve any errors at all. I then restarted Mango, and went into swagger, but fail to see any URL path t o access this custom endpoint. I tried accessing: http://localhost:8080/rest/v2/custom/latest-value-only/DP_059c7915-c0e7-48dc-b9e3-28ca8b92da01?fields=VALUE&limit=1&useCache=NONE but got a "page not found" error. Again, thanks for all the help!

[raylatbasix]

Hi Phil,

Nevermind! Apparently the command:

jar uf mango-api-3.6.0.jar com/infiniteautomation/mango/rest/v2/CustomizedRestController.class

did not actually take the first time. I think Mango was running by mistake, when I ran it the first time.

It's actually all working now, and I see the plain text data that I need for my application!!

Brilliant as always Phil!!

Thanks again!!

[phildunlap]

:D Glad to hear it, I was trying to figure out what could have gone awry as I had tested it before posting!

Happy hacking!

[raylatbasix]

On a side note to this application, When I use this Rest URL from my third-party app on the same network, Will I recieve any authentication challenges "Auth Tokens" before Mango will display the data? Right now, It works fine in my localhost browser, but I'm not sure about a remote application.

[terrypacker]

@raylatbasix all endpoints located below /rest are restricted to authenticated users. For a 3rd party app I would suggest token authentication which is quite easy to use from the client side by including the token in the Authorization header as shown on this page:

https://help.infiniteautomation.com/mango-rest-api-authentication?rq=token

Ensure you use https to protect the token.

[raylatbasix]

Hi Terry,
Sorry for being a newbie, but How would I pass this JWT Auth token within a request URL to the Rest API?

[phildunlap]

The header is Authorization, the value is Token <token value> like
Authorization: Bearer <token value> and you can generate auth tokens for users on the users page.

[phildunlap]

Whoops, wrote that wrong, don't trust the email notification text!

Authorization: Bearer <token value>

[raylatbasix]

Hi Phil,

Yes, I saw that, and forgive my ignorance, I can generate user tokens. My problem is that I can only modify the URL on my third party app. I am not understanding how to pass this authorization token from within my request URL.

Sorry for the crazy question :)

EDIT: In other words, what is my URL's format for reqesting data? ie:

http://localhost:8080/rest/v2/custom/latest-value-only/DP_e64bb726-ddd4-4065-8972-21c9441af408?access_token=<auth token here>??????

[raylatbasix]

Good Morning Phil,

You can cancel this request, I was able to solve my Authorization Request Header issue.

Thanks again for all the help!!