This API is used to authenticate a user on the Lyftrondata app to get an access token that is further used in subsequent requests to access the resources of the system like connections, databases, tables, pipelines etc. A user needs to provide his username and password along with other required parameters to call this API which will in return provide a JSON response containing Auth token.
Request Headers
|
Key |
Value |
|
Content-Type |
application/x-www-form-urlencoded |
|
Request Type |
Post |
|
URL |
http://yourlyftrondataappurl/api/1.0/token |
*** {YourLyftronDataAppUrl} will be replaced with your Lyftrondata App url.
Example
Request Parameters
Request body will contain the following parameters as a JSON object.
|
Parameter |
Type |
Required |
Description |
| username | String | Yes | User name of login user |
| password | String | Yes | Password of login user |
| grant_type | String | Yes | Define grant type which is password in this case |
Example
Response Parameters
|
Parameter |
Description |
|
access_token |
Access token returned from server |
|
token_type |
Type of Token. Bearer in this case |
|
expires_in |
Expiry time of token in milliseconds |
Example
{
"access_token": "AQAAANCMnd8BFdERjHoAwE_Cl-sBAAAAaFG48GFekUqO3N7eUhWa0wAAAAACAAAAAAAQZgAAAAEAACAAAAB6EP5u0kvnhx6bWjxVgeYAIeLaWjEK4nGKiP-NIiOyrQAAAAAOgAAAAAIAACAAAACiofJQqVs-pgeVxGgxYQulj3G74eI1vY8XKpL9pfFKcXAAAADA1D6CEjWZLY1tbETVGMb-RH-V9wN2G8drhyFtYKwXBejjtt_qu3Wuyo2Is3YZXEkapHqgMe2hD-GtWIWPaZT9U7tudZc0-61BA2jWN-LaN9ZElQqt9KTu_OIDJq7w3BplmSTb33zc7voE7DW2fHnEQAAAALHUorPMqj9fKk0DZ3mUDzTlo8UptxavoWggi3BUwkh2Pn69Yf472NXkaPGkFTrVDF2OLgk5-zfY1w_wIWe4ZoU",
"token_type": "bearer",
"expires_in": 31535999
}