Currently interning in a mobile dev company.
Working on a task that they assigned to me.
Need to build an explore screen that receives JSON data.
They have their JSON data coming through Postman chrome extension.
I have authorization token and sample username/password.
As well as something that looks like a link that I can modify:
https://nameoftheapp.nameofthecompany.com/api/v1/search/surveys/app?searchCategory=explore&limit=10&offset=0&location=global
All iOS json tutorials shows that I need an API url.
How Can I build such URL?
edit:
here is what I've been given - the Postman chrome extension:
(sorry, had to hide some details because of non disclosure agreement)
Postman assist you in testing the functionality you have built into an API. These functionalities can be accessed by typing in the URL and then using the GET, POST, PUT etc HTTP requests.
I think maybe this video can assist you in learning more about Postman - Javabrains does a great job at explaining it:
http://javabrains.koushik.org/courses/javaee_jaxrs/lessons/Installing-A-Rest-Api-Client
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I am following along a brilliant Pluralsight tutorial, building my first ASP.Net MVC site. I want to login to my website, creating a cookie in my Chrome browser, and use Postman to send some requests which should be handled by my controller because the Authorize attribute should be satisfied by my browser.
I have installed the interceptor plug-in on my Chrome browser. I keep seeing that I need to switch on the Interceptor at the top of Postman, but I don't have that switch! I have a Proxy Settings button instead.
Can someone please explain how I should proceed?
You have a few options here. The tutorial you are watching is probably referring to the Chrome Extension which is what Postman started out as. It now also has a standalone application version, which, at the time of this post, is up to 4.9.3 and for which the interceptor no longer works with.
So you either need to install the Chrome extension version or work with the standalone app without the interceptor.
Options 1: Uninstall the standalone app version and install the Chrome extension version and then also make sure to install and enable the Postman Interceptor Chrome Extension
Option 2: Just add a Cookie header to your standalone Postman app's request. Something like:
Key: Cookie
Value: CookieName=28789ijnbskjhiuhyd8y
Option 3: Use the standalone app's built in proxy which will allow any requests made through your browser to be streamed into the Postman history. This option works ok but you would have to get the request in your Postman history and then re-execute the request from within Postman which is kind of awkward. Instructions here
I'm trying to register my App on Venmo's developer site so that I can properly use their API, but I'm stuck trying to figure out what the required "Web Redirect URL" field is for. According to the docs, it says it is the following:
Venmo will redirect your users to this address. Must be formatted like
http(s)://www.example.com/example_redirect_url
As far as I could gather this was a URL scheme that would allow Venmo to redirect you back to your app after payment processing was completed on their side, but in researching how to set up a URL scheme the format is something like "[scheme-name]://", not "http://...."
The other thought I had was that this was just a url that contained a server-side or javascript redirect to that aforementioned URL scheme, but that seems like an unnecessary extra step. I also have a few other theories on what it could be, so I'm really just not sure which one it is...
I was running into the same problem. If your website is deployed you can use the redirect that your hosting service provides you. If you're not deployed then you can set it localhost.
Example: http://localhost:8000/auth/venmo/callback
I'm developing an app using Phonegap and it implements a Facebook login to save some data using the user_id as a reference. I'm using OAuth.io library to implement the login dialog and everything runs smoothly in the web browser and in Android but when I test the app in XCode and I tap the login button the following error appears.
Cannot find hostname in file:/// from static
code: InvalidHeader
message: Cannot find hostname in file:/// from static
My guess is that it has something to do with phonegap not making an external request since the app is not actually hosted in a domain but running locally... any thoughts?
Seems like you are using oauth.js library instead of phonegap version
In your main page "index.html" add reference to the correct js file
<script src="oauth-phonegap.js"></script>
Then follow the instructions here to build your application
I had a simular issue using oauth.io. Turns out it was my Ajax prefilter changing the REQUEST to Facebook(it was adding parameters to the header for each request). Wether this is your issue or not, what you need to do is compare a successful REQUEST to Facebook to an unseccussful one, that will show you where things go wrong. Alternativly a blank phonegap app with no extra code other then the required oauth code should work and will be a Good starting point to isolate your issue.
I have been using Phonegap 2 years before.Though I didn't connect to facebook before,I connected to other website by OAuth.I can show you my solution.
Firstly,you should know how OAuth works.You can read OAuth 2.0 from facebook developer website or other websites.
Secondly,you should know your target:token,uid,expires_time.The most important thing is token.
Thirdly,just do it.In 2010,I solve this problem by using Phonegap Childbrowser plugin(now Phonegap have a inAppBrowser) and a light server.
Why I should use a light server?The server can help me to handle the redirecting in OAuth service and do cache.
Step 1 : I wrote script to connect with my server,and my server connect to OAuth Service(facebook).
Step 2 : OAuth Service(Facebook) do response and redirect to Facebook login page.
Step 3 : After input username and password,OAuth Service(Facebook) will redirect to another url and do a callback with some code or token.
Step 4 : If you get the token,save it and use it to connect OAuth Service(Facebook) if you want.
When I saw "Cannot find hostname in file:/// from static " in your description,I know that maybe you get confuse in OAuth.Now,I suggest you some server side code to handle it and make your OAuth process possible.
I'm trying to develop a desktop application to access an API exposed by Groundspeak for geocaching.com. The API requires the use of OAuth.
After finally figuring out why my message signature was being rejected (I had to double-encode my callback URL, after reading somewhere that double-encoding causes problems), I now receive the following error from Groundspeak when attempting to get a request token:
oauth_error_message=Error%20while%20reading%20message%20%27DotNetOpenAuth.OAuth.Messages.UnauthorizedTokenRequest%27%20parameter%20%27oauth_callback%27%20with%20value%20%27http%253A%252F%252Fwww.mysite.com%252F%27.
Not a very descriptive error message. What's the problem here? Groundspeak uses DotNetOpenAuth on its server. Seems like my callback URL might be causing some issue, but I don't have any idea what.
I should probably also say that I'm developing a desktop application, so the callback URL isn't really valid. It does point to a website I own, but that website has no idea about OAuth at all. If I omit the callback URL, I receive the error "Callback URL not present or not valid" or somesuch.
I don't know anything about Groundspeak but I'd guess that they require that you register your app's callback URL before using OAuth. At least Google and Microsoft do this with their OAuth APIs. Look for some kind of developer settings on Groundspeak.
This is definitely something that needs to be further defined in the future: OAuth for non-web applications. But there does seem to be a few possible solutions (not the cleanest) that you can try to get OAuth working within a desktop application. You can look into the articles below that have some working solutions (I have not tested this myself). It's based off of Google's workable solution for handling OAuth from installed desktop apps:
https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuthForInstalledApps
Link to possible workaround solutions:
http://blog.appharbor.com/2012/06/21/oauth-for-net-desktop-applications
Here's also a related article on SO for desktop app OAuth: OAuth for Desktop apps?
Hope this helps!
I'm trying to get a iOS client to make use of Yammer's Oauth2 to validate a user. I first tried the GTM-OAuth2 code, but I cannot get it to understand the response from Yammer. It appears that the GTM code is expecting the access_code as a query parameter, where as Yammer is returning it as a uri fragment. I hack he GTM code to see the fragment, but now it appears to be thinking that there is an error because the code and message fields are not in the response from Yammer.
I've also tried to use OAuth2Client api but the problem there is that Yammer does not seem to want to use the redirect_uri I pass to it, so Safari never gets the custom url and therefore never calls back to the app.
Does anyone have a working example of using Yammer's OAuth2?
I would also be interested if anyone has got GTM-OAuth2 to work with Facebook?
Yeah Yammer has a shitty implementation of oAuth. Looks like each service has taken its own implementation of oauth. anyway yammer requires the user to copy a 4-digit code from its website, go back to your service paste that code in your website. Only then you can request for access code.
check this - http://www.tutorialjinni.com/2011/04/yammer-api-example.html (its in php but hope you can get the gist).
Nothing you can do about it but a fun read - Yammer API sucks