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Laserfiche On-Prem API says that my username is missing in the request

Laserfiche API

Updated June 6, 2023

asked on June 6, 2023

The instructions for authenticating are the following

I created a test workflow request as such

But it responds with this error that my username is missing.

It works in the swagger playground, but not in a real http request.

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replied on June 6, 2023

For this API, the content type of the request body is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, rather than application/json.

If you try setting the URI in your request to this format

/LFRepositoryAPI/v1/Repositories/{repository-name}/Token

and the content body in this format with valid credentials

grant_type=password&username={username}&password={password}

then I think the request should work

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replied on June 6, 2023

Hi,

For this API, the grant_type, username, and password parameters are part of the request body. In your request, could you try moving these parameters from the URI query parameter to the request content body?

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replied on June 6, 2023

Just copy the URI data to the body? Wouldn't a body be written in JSON?

&variable=value is URI syntax

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replied on June 6, 2023

For this API, the content type of the request body is application/x-www-form-urlencoded, rather than application/json.

If you try setting the URI in your request to this format

/LFRepositoryAPI/v1/Repositories/{repository-name}/Token

and the content body in this format with valid credentials

grant_type=password&username={username}&password={password}

then I think the request should work

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replied on June 6, 2023

That worked just as you said!

I have never used anything other than JSON in the content body before, I guess that explains why it is a post and not a get.

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