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How to generate the access token for Bold Reports Report Server using credentials

You can generate the access token for a user in Bold Reports by using the Authentication API. To do this, pass the following parameters:

username - The user’s email address.

password - The user’s password.

grant_type - The type of credentials are used to authorize the request for an access token. The valid value is: password.

.NET,.NET Core, and .NET Framework

Use HTTPClient with ASP.NET Core, ASP.NET MVC, and ASP.NET Web Forms applications to interact with RESTful APIs. Refer to the following code to generate the authorization using the credentials:

 public  class TokenHelper
    {
        public string GenerateToken(string userName, string password)
        {
            System.Net.ServicePointManager.SecurityProtocol |= System.Net.SecurityProtocolType.Tls11 | System.Net.SecurityProtocolType.Tls12;
            string userName = "user@example.com"; //Provide your Email ID
            string password = "demo"; //Provide your Password
            using (var client = new HttpClient())
            {
                client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Clear();
                var content = new FormUrlEncodedContent(new[]
                {
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("grant_type", "password"),
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("username", userName),
                new KeyValuePair<string, string>("password", password)
                  });
                var result = client.PostAsync("https://demo.example.com/reporting/api/token", content).Result;
                string resultContent = result.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
                var token = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Token>(resultContent);
                return token.token_type + " " + token.access_token;
            }
        }
    }
    public class Token
    {
        public string access_token { get; set; }
        public string token_type { get; set; }
        public string expires_in { get; set; }
        public string userName { get; set; }
        public string serverUrl { get; set; }
        public string password { get; set; }
    }

JavaScript

Use Ajax to interact with RESTful APIs. Refer to the following code to generate the authorization using the credentials:

   <script type="text/javascript">
         $(function () {
               var dataValue = "";
               var apiRequest = new Object();
               apiRequest.password = "demo"; // Provide your Password
               apiRequest.userid = "user@example.com"; // Provide your Email ID
               $.ajax({
                  type: "POST",
                  url: "https://demo.example.com/reporting/api/get-user-key",
                  data: apiRequest,
                  success: function (data) {
                     dataValue = data.Token;
                     var token = JSON.parse(dataValue);
                  }
               });
         });
   </script>

Node JS

Use Http module to interact with RESTful APIs. Refer to the following code to generate the authorization using the credentials:

function token(res, callback, callbackInput) {
  var postData = JSON.stringify({
    userid: 'user@example.com', // Provide your Email ID
    password: 'demo' // Provide your Password
  })
  var options = {
    method: 'POST',
    host: 'demo.example.com',
    port: 443,
    path: '/reporting/api/get-user-key',
    headers: {
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      'Content-Length': postData.length
    }
  };
  var request = gethttp().request(options, function (response) {
    var data = '';
    response.on('data', function (chunk) {
      data += chunk;
    });
    response.on('end', function () {
      var tokenData = JSON.parse(data);
      var tokenObject = JSON.parse(tokenData.Token);
      callbackFunction(res, tokenObject.token_type + ' ' + tokenObject.access_token, callback, callbackInput);
    });
  });
  request.on('error', error => {
    console.error(error)
  })
   request.end();
}