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flex_grigorowicz
flex_grigorowicz

Reputation: 63

How to set authentication in post request?

I have this, code which does a post request from an xml (soap) file

public static SoapEnv doRequest(String  url, String requestPath) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
    String requestBody = inputStreamToString(new FileInputStream(new File(requestPath)));
    HttpClient client = HttpClient.newHttpClient();

    HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
        .uri(URI.create(url))
        .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(requestBody))
        .build();
    HttpResponse<String> response = client.send(request,
                HttpResponse.BodyHandlers.ofString());
    XmlMapper xmlMapper = new XmlMapper();
    SoapEnv value = xmlMapper.readValue(response.body(), SoapEnv.class);
    return value;
}

and it works.

But now I need to add basic authentication. I have login and password.

How can I do this programmatically?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1177

Answers (1)

Shivam Puri
Shivam Puri

Reputation: 1666

You just need to add a header with the Base64 encoded authentication credentials separated by a colon ":".
Something like this;

    String auth = "username:password";
    String base64Creds = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString(auth.getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8));

    HttpRequest request = HttpRequest.newBuilder()
        .uri(URI.create(url))
        .header("Authorization", "Basic " + base64Creds)
        .POST(HttpRequest.BodyPublishers.ofString(requestBody))
        .build();

Upvotes: 2

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