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A_1033388410-Marble
10-Marble
June 12, 2024
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Send JSON to outside thingworx

  • June 12, 2024
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Can i send my json format properties to outside using REST API url without login from any user?

Best answer by ZbigniewK

Url is like https://myservice.com/datas?auth=ABC123D4F7&startdate=2024-03-27
where:
myservice - is your service with it's API,
/datas - API call to read datas, depends on your api
/auth= ... - your API key
startdate - example parameter (you can add it to URL if use http GET, but not with http POST)

How to make your API key works? Ask your service admin. 
If you are beginner with API calls, I recomend first to use POSTMAN (just  google postman )program as a tool if your API works. It's very simple tool to check your API, your API calls. After you're sure your API works, you can try to figure out how to program it in TWX.

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ZbigniewK12-Amethyst
12-Amethyst
June 12, 2024

Does it depend on TWX/your application?
For me, it looks like it's more dependent on your target server, where you have this API set.

If this server allows you for any operations without authentication - then you just make API call to take data.

Still, it's better to USE authentication, but based on API keys - eg. in system I do cooperate via API, there is special user for application generated, it has it's own name and password (but nobody uses them), has his privilegess/access rights set, and have API key generated, eg. ABC123D4F7. 
Everytime when I call this service via API, I add auth=ABC123D4F7 to my URL, and system knows, it should use exactly this user and exactly his access rights to process my request. 
Hope, that was you were asking for. 

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A_1033388410-MarbleAuthor
10-Marble
June 13, 2024

Can you give the exact url for example for this authentication key and how to make this authentication key works?

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ZbigniewK12-AmethystAnswer
12-Amethyst
June 13, 2024

Url is like https://myservice.com/datas?auth=ABC123D4F7&startdate=2024-03-27
where:
myservice - is your service with it's API,
/datas - API call to read datas, depends on your api
/auth= ... - your API key
startdate - example parameter (you can add it to URL if use http GET, but not with http POST)

How to make your API key works? Ask your service admin. 
If you are beginner with API calls, I recomend first to use POSTMAN (just  google postman )program as a tool if your API works. It's very simple tool to check your API, your API calls. After you're sure your API works, you can try to figure out how to program it in TWX.

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June 19, 2024

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