01-personal-api-tokens

Personal API Tokens tutorial

In this example we're going to:

• start Jahia Enterprise, single node and use a local DerbyDB
• Use a groovy script to create an API token attached to root (see: https://academy.jahia.com/documentation/developer/jahia/8/using-personal-api-tokens)

For simplicity's sake, the groovy script creating the token is located in this repository and accessed directly from the provisioning.yaml script.

Note that these examples are provided as a proof of principle, you should never, ever, store credentials on public URLs.

Instructions

Starting this example is very straight-forward and has no external dependencies (aside from content of this repository), it can be simply started using docker run.

As with most of the examples in this repository, we're going to directly reference the provisioning script by its URL. But it could also be located on the Jahia's filesystem (or in mounted volume).

docker run -e EXECUTE_PROVISIONING_SCRIPT="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Jahia/provisioning-tutorials/main/01-personal-api-tokens/provisioning.yaml" -p 8080:8080 jahia/jahia-ee:8.1.2.0

The command above expose a running Jahia on http://localhost:8080 (watch-out if this port is already used on your machine).

After startup

You can verify that the token was successefully installed and is usable by running the following curl:

curl --request POST \
  --url http://localhost:8080/modules/graphql \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Origin: http://localhost:8080' \
  --header 'authorization: APIToken kgHNm05iQV61I+GY3X5HVr13i866HAAsyou8G+eGubk=' \
  --data '{"query":"query {\n  currentUser {\n    name\n  }\n}"}'

You should receive the following:

{"data":{"currentUser":{"name":"root"}}}

You can also check the response when sending an invalid token.

curl --request POST \
  --url http://localhost:8080/modules/graphql \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --header 'Origin: http://localhost:8080' \
  --header 'authorization: APIToken THIS-TOKEN-DOES-NOT-EXIST' \
  --data '{"query":"query {\n  currentUser {\n    name\n  }\n}"}'

You should a permission denied message:

{"errors":[{"message":"Permission denied","locations":[{"line":2,"column":3}],"path":["currentUser"],"extensions":{"classification":"GqlAccessDeniedException"},"errorType":"GqlAccessDeniedException"}],"data":{"currentUser":null}}

What did we learn ?

In this tutorial we used docker run with an environment variable pointing to a provisioning script stored externally.

This provisioning script uses three different commands:

• installBundle to install a Jahia module.
• startBundle to start a Jahia module. This command is useful to pause execution of the script until the module was started, allowing further command using that module to be used in the script. If you didn't need to use the module as part of Jahia provisioning, you could simply use installBundle with the autoStart parameter.
• executeScript to execute a script (groovy or GraphQL). In our example the script is located in a remote location, but we could also exectue a script on Jahia filesystem.

Next

In the next tutorial, we're going to switch to a MariaDB database and import digitall, click here.