Xpages to call Rest service with auth Token

Question

I need to call some APIs in a Oracle app called Taleo. I have the documentation and was able to get a my calls to work in a REST plugin in Firefox and in a REST Mac Client app,"Paw".

I first have to send credentials to get a auth Token cookie:

https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/api/v1/login?orgCode=XXXXXXS&userName=XXXXX&password=XXXXXX

If I call this then I receive the authToken [webapi2=numbers].

Then I can use essentially the same URL to POST,GET,PUT,DELETE etc. to different objects, for example a GET to

https://chj.tbe.taleo.net/chj06/ats/api/v1/object/location

with JSON in the body for creating a location.

I think I would like to write a java agent (so it can be schedule) to, for example, to interrogate the data on my system and then create, update, delete as appropriate on the remote system.

I am much more comfortable using LotusScript/SSJS and the built in Rest controls, but probably should take the plunge and do this in Java, but where should I start?

Knut Herrmann Knut Herrmann · Accepted Answer · 2015-11-12T08:07:37

I'd go with an Java agent as you want to run your code in background.

Use Java's native HTTP classes

java.net.HttpURLConnection and
javax.net.ssl.HttpsURLConnection

for HTTP connection. You can find an easy example here as a starting point.

Alternatively you could use more comfortable APIs like Apache's HTTPClient.

If you want/have to stay with LotusScript then you could create a Java class which realizes all HTTP connections and instantiate the class in LotusScript agent per LS2J.
If you have a Windows Domino server then you could use WinHttpRequest with CreateObject() and stay with pure LotusScript.

Xpages to call Rest service with auth Token

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