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Status Future consideration
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 30, 2023

Enable http/bearer security in RESTRequest nodes calling APIs defined by OpenAPI V3

OpenAPI V3 updated, from Swagger V2,  the available security schemes that can be defined for a Rest API.  Most notable a securityScheme of type http can use a scheme of 'basic' or 'bearer'. There is also the apiKey type.  It appears that ACE V12 only recognizes the http/basic and apiKey schemes where the RESTRequest node will build the appropriate HTTP Header (or Query) parameters to satisfy these calls, provided that the Username/Password and/or APIKey information is available to the flow via credentials, identity propagation, or set in the LocalEnvironment. 

We are finding that more and more, the APIs that we call from ACE are using bearer authorization with a JWT.  To enable this to work, we need to modify the OpenAPI document to add an apiKey securityScheme definition were we set the key to be a header parameter named 'Authorization' and then set the JWT as the LocalEnvironment.Destination.REST.Request.APIKey value.  While this works, it is inconvenient to have to do this "trick" every time we import an update to the API. 

We would like to have the RESTRequest node fully support the identifying and using a http/bearer securityScheme, if defined in the OpenAPI document.  The value for the bearer token should come from LocalEnvironment.Destination.REST.Request.Bearer.  (or BearerToken).   The node should also examine value of the token and append 'Bearer ' to the beginning if not already present. 

 

Idea priority Medium
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    Ben Thompson
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    Jan 12, 2024

    Hi Steve ... Thank you for taking the time to raise this suggestion, which we agree would absolutely be of benefit. As luck would have it, this functional area has recently been discussed by the engineering team in the context of some work we have been doing analysing some niche areas where Designer flows and Toolkit flows operate slightly differently. We're keen to drive greater consistency in to our architecture (hence the discussion I refer to above) aside from the core benefit that you would obviously inherit by having us supply a solution to this enhancement idea. So we currently have a positive outlook for this area. Status of the idea is updated to Future Consideration.