(Supporting Network Advisor 12.3.0)

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Logging in and out
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The following are the header names and values. The password must be passed in as clear text.
Login response header
Upon successful authentication, a new client session is created and a token is returned through
the HTTP response header. The token identifies the client’s Network Advisor session and must be
used for all subsequent web service requests. The token expires after 10 minutes of no activity.
For information about the login response schema, refer to “LoginResponse.”
Sample login request (Java)
The following is sample Java code for establishing a REST API session with Network Advisor. For a
Python example, see “Creating a sample Python client.”
HttpURLConnection con = null;
try {
/**
* Create the HTTP connection object with the URI, method and headers
*/
URL obj = new URL("http://10.24.48.103/rest/login");
con = (HttpURLConnection) obj.openConnection();
con.setRequestMethod("POST");
con.addRequestProperty("WSusername", "Administrator");
con.addRequestProperty("WSpassword", "password");
con.addRequestProperty("Accept",
"application/vnd.brocade.networkadvisor+json;version=v1");
System.out.println("CALLING POST http://10.24.48.103/rest/login");
/**
* Make the HTTP call
*/
int responseCode = con.getResponseCode();
System.out.println("Response code is " + responseCode);
if (HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK != responseCode) {
PRINT_ERROR(con);
assert false : "REST FAILED for login, responseCode = " + responseCode;
}
String token = con.getHeaderField("WStoken");
if (null != token) {
System.out.println("GOT TOKEN FROM RS RESPONSE = " + token);
PRINT_RESPONSE(con);
TABLE 5 Login request headers
Request header name Request header value
Accept The content type
WSusername The valid Network Advisor user name
WSpassword The password
TABLE 6 Login response header
Response header name Request header value
WStoken The token