REST API authentication changes coming soon

REST API authentication changes coming soon

[Brad Bishop]

I just wanted to re-announce this change in a very visible way:

https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2019-January/014881.html

I'm not sure how to interpret the silence.  There will be some impact
to any programatic use of the current REST API when we make this
switch.  If you have issues with that please speak up so we can see
about what we can do to help ease the transition.

thx - brad

Re: REST API authentication changes coming soon

[Matt Spinler]

On 2019-01-28 12:52, Brad Bishop wrote:
> I just wanted to re-announce this change in a very visible way:
> 
> https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/openbmc/2019-January/014881.html
> 
> I'm not sure how to interpret the silence.  There will be some impact
> to any programatic use of the current REST API when we make this
> switch.  If you have issues with that please speak up so we can see
> about what we can do to help ease the transition.


There is a review in progress at
https://gerrit.openbmc-project.xyz/#/c/openbmc/docs/+/17706/ with the
new authentication details.

Other differences I've noticed from phosphor-rest:
* URLs are case sensitive
* Will not interpolate strings to ints
   e.g. won't covert "1000" to 1000 if D-Bus arg is an int
* Not tolerant on things like double '/'s in the URL
   e.g. /xyz/openbmc_project//attr/blah... will not work



> thx - brad