Authentication¶
Requests for calling an API can be authenticated using a token.
Token Authentication¶
Note
The validity period of a token is 24 hours. When using a token for authentication, cache it to prevent frequently calling the IAM API used to obtain a user token.
A token specifies temporary permissions in a computer system. During API authentication using a token, the token is added to requests to get permissions for calling the API. You can obtain a token by calling the Obtaining User Token API.
A cloud service can be deployed as either a project-level service or global service.
For a project-level service, you need to obtain a project-level token. When you call the API, set auth.scope in the request body to project.
For a global service, you need to obtain a global token. When you call the API, set auth.scope in the request body to domain.
IMS is a project-level service. When you call the API, set auth.scope in the request body to project.
{
"auth": {
"identity": {
"methods": [
"password"
],
"password": {
"user": {
"name": "username",
"password": "********",
"domain": {
"name": "domainname"
}
}
}
},
"scope": {
"project": {
"name": "xxxxxxxx"
}
}
}
}
After a token is obtained, the X-Auth-Token header field must be added to requests to specify the token when calling other APIs. For example, if the token is ABCDEFJ...., X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ.... can be added to a request as follows:
POST https://{{endpoint}}/v3/auth/projects
Content-Type: application/json
X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ....