Create JSON Web Token (JWT) to Authenticate Onboarding Repository API

You will need the following values from your service key in order to get your JSON web access token.

Navigate to the service that you created in the previous tutorial Create a Service Instance and then a Service Key of SAP Document Management Service, Integration Option.

1. Open the Postman client. Click on New and then select HTTP Request to open a new tab on Postman to work on.

   

2. Select the POST method and enter the following details:

   1. Copy the url from your service key and append this

      /oauth/token?grant_type=client_credentials&authorities=<AUTHORITIES>
      

   2. Verify that your request URL looks like the following:
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        "url">/oauth/token?grant_type=client_credentials&authorities={"az_attr":{"X-EcmUserEnc":"abc@xyz.com","X-EcmAddPrincipals":"abc"
      

   3. For AUTHORITIES, encode the following values:

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          "az_attr":{"X-EcmUserEnc":"<Your BTP user Email ID>","X-EcmAddPrincipals":"<Your first name>"
      

      

   4. For encoding, you need to select all the values in the authorities field, right click and select the option EncodeURIComponent.

      

3. Navigate to Authorization tab and enter the following:

   Field Name	Value
   Type	Basic Auth
   Username	clientId
   Password	clientSecret

   Click Send.

   

4. When a successful response is received, the status is 200 OK. Copy the access_token and save it in a secure area.