Getting 401 unauthorized error in web rest API creating new case

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Hello everybody,

I’m having a similar issue as the one described in this question:

https://community.bonitasoft.com/questions-and-answers/getting-401-unauthorized-error-web-rest-api

I’m trying to instantiate a testing process, on ACME organization with the user walter.bates. I can do it using the portal UI, but through the API REST I’m getting 401 unauthorized error.

Thanks in advance,

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Hi,

Which tool are you using the execute the REST call? You have to make sure that the correct headers and cookies are passed along the call.

Cheers

3

Hi Lionel, and thank you for answering.
I’m using Postman, as I’ve seen in some tutorials over the internet.
At first I’m calling loginservice and then the endpoint I want to test.
In cookies there are three of them, JSESSIONID, bonita.tenant and X-Bonita-API-Token.
¿Is there something I’m missing?
Other endpoints, like identity/user and bpm/case/case# are working well.

Cheers,

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Hi,

Yes there is one tricky point: X-Bonita-API-Token

You have to have this token in both the cookies and the headers.

So your header would look like this:

Accept:application/json, text/plain, */* Accept-Encoding:gzip, deflate Accept-Language:en Cache-Control:no-cache Connection:keep-alive Cookie:bonita.tenant=1; JSESSIONID=CB38F1835009338520C0304423053E66; X-Bonita-API-Token=c3039d3c-16e0-47eb-a6c4-eb28967a1eaf; BOS_Locale=en X-Bonita-API-Token:c3039d3c-16e0-47eb-a6c4-eb28967a1eaf

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Hi Lionel, and thank you very much. It works!
Now I’m having another issue, but I think is better open a new thread.
Cheers.