In my first post in this series Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) Snapshot RestAPI - Part 1: Create Confidential Application (IDCS) I create the Confidential Application and collected the following:
- Client ID
- Client Secret
- Scope URL
In order to create a Bearer Token you need to make the following curl call
However if you see in the 3rd line the Client ID and Client Secret need to be Base64 encoded.
The Client ID and Client Secret need to be concatenated with a colon (:) between them and then Base64 encoded. A handy online website will do it for you. Just copy out the encoded string and use in next step
The following curl command gets a bearer token that needs to be used all subsequent curl calls for Oracle Analytics Snapshots
Replace the designated areas with your information.
Copy the newly formulated block and paste into Postman
- Click Import
- Click Raw Text
- Paste curl command
- Click Continue
On next screen click Import
Postman will bring your curl command into the interface. You can review the various tabs.
Click Send. If everything was done correctly you should get a return in the response section with a long string. This is your bearer token that will be used for future calls.
Since I want to do my RestAPI calls via PowerShell script I will have Postman provide me the script.
Click the button </>
From the drop-down select PowerShell – RestMethod, copy the code snippet to clipboard.
In PowerShell editor paste the clipboard.
You will need to add -uri to the sting as shown in line 9
Run the new block of code and you should get a long string response just like in Postman
Since I will be using Postman to build the test the other curl commands and convert them the curl to PowerShell, I will save the Get Bearer Token tab.
I will be needing a Bearer Token for almost all the RestAPI calls so I made a function that Base64 encodes the Client ID & Secret and then does the RestAPI Call for the Bearer Token so that I can reuse within other scripts.
