login problem through api

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dhaivatnaik

Hello Everybody,

I am new to alfresco, I am trying to integrate alfresco to my php application through webservice. I started with RestFull Api login method.

I successfully got the ticket when i call the /alfresco/service/api/login with GET.
I am wondering how to call the login through POST and get ticket (authenticated).

this is what i did

$url = 'http://myserver/alfresco/service/api/login';
$aData = array(   'username'=>'admin',
      'password'=> 'admin'
         );
      $ch = curl_init($url);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1); 
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
      curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,array($aData));

      $result = curl_exec($ch);
      $response = curl_getinfo($ch);   
      curl_close($ch);
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but it gives me following error

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Server: Apache-Coyote/1.1
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close

i also tried with

$aData = array(   'username'=>'admin',
      'password'=> 'admin'
         );
   $jsonenc = json_encode($aData);
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER,array('Content-Type: application/json'));
   curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,array($jsonenc));
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it didn't worked too. Can anybody please tell me what is wrong? what can be done?

Thanks in advance,
Dhaivat

ddanninger

I used the Pear Package -> "HTTP/Request"

Some code snippets of my functions (use my own implemantation of restclient / alfresco-rest-authentication class):

$url = "http://192.168.254.128:8080/alfresco/service/api/login?format=json";
$postArr = json_encode(array("username"=>$userName,"password"=>$password));

// create instance 
$this->req = new HTTP_Request($url);

// post data
$this->req->setMethod(HTTP_REQUEST_METHOD_POST);
$this->req->addHeader("Content-Type","application/json");
$this->req->addRawPostData($postArr);

// send request + get response

$this->response = $this->req->sendRequest();
if (PEAR::isError($this->response)) {
    echo $this->response->getMessage();
    die();
} 
else {
    $this->responseBody = $this->req->getResponseBody();
}         



// get json response (because i asked for format=json)
$responseData = json_decode($this->responseBody);   
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hope that helps