Anyone Successfully Access ECM API From Another Application?

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I looked on the forum but only found the posts about creating REST calls from ECM. I am wondering if anyone has actually made a REST call to ECM from another application (or even Postman).

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Don’t know the answer but my curiosity is piqued.

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Well, technically I did prototype the function to upload to ECM in LINQPad, but I went through Epicor’s API to do it using a REST call.

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I was going to suggest you could use Epicor BOs as an intermediary, but direct access would be cool.

I did find a post on here from back when it was DocStar, where a guy was calling it, but there was no real info there:

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Yes, I thought about going through Kinetic’s APIs but was hoping for direct. This is the error I am getting in postman.

{
    "Error": {
        "Data": "NoToken",
        "Message": "An authentication Token was not provided",
        "Stack": "   at Astria.Framework.Runtime.V2.ServiceBase.InitCall(String key, Boolean initialize)\r\n   at Astria.Service.Company.V2.SearchService.Search(SearchRequest searchRequest)",
        "Type": "Astria.Framework.DataContracts.LoginRequiredException"
    },
    "Result": null
}
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It should have a token service you need to call to get a token.

You’ll have to add the token to the headers of the call.

Might still be “ds-token”.

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That link Kevin provided above should help you need to get one and it is maintained throughout subsequent calls using ds-token at least it was in 10.2.X DocStar :slight_smile:

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And answer my question slowpoke. “We” must know.

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But how do I find said token? I do not see anything in ECM to generate one. :thinking:

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It’ll be an API call to the same service.

How did you discover the url you are trying to call?

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HostingV2/Authentication.svc

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Wait:

https://pedro.docstar.com/eapi24.1/HostingV2/License.svc/help/operations/GetTokens/index.html

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:cry:

{
    "Error": {
        "Data": "NoToken",
        "Message": "An authentication Token was not provided",
        "Stack": "   at Astria.Framework.Runtime.V2.ServiceBase.InitCall(String key, Boolean initialize)\r\n   at Astria.Services.Hosting.V2.LicenseService.GetTokens()",
        "Type": "Astria.Framework.DataContracts.LoginRequiredException"
    },
    "Result": null
}
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It’s probably this one then:

/HostingV2/Authentication.svc

However, there is no example of the request body.

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You can try debugging the calls in chrome while logging in to the web app.

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good idea

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Could you also monitor the ECM Client? You can force the client to reconnect using the button on the login page and see the traffic.

I also checked around in ECM and the Help system - couldn’t find anything useful.

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this is in the web.config and mine is false and commented out and it looks like you want to hit the user.svc

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Authentication has changed a bit in the last 5 years and we’ve moved to the cloud since then, but I was able to piece it together for you guys.

use /EclipseServer/HostingV2/User.svc/restssl/LogIn

{
	"Password":"SuperSecurePassword123",
	"ProxyLogin": false,
	"ProxyOnBehalfOf": "00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
	"Username":"user@domain.com"
}

It’ll return some information on the user, the instance guid, and a token to be used in subsequent calls.

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