Facility Control

Hello everyone.

Could someone help me?

I'm trying to send API command to third party Signage server.

I usually do it with HTTP ASync Post with URL. 

Most of them don't need Authrization and body(maybe command body?)

But some of them need it, and I don't have an idea how to insert these information.

Please see body sample below:

{"command":"samplecom","deviceType":"sampletype","params":{"key":"cancel"},"devices":["deviceID"]}

Authorization username and password must be included in a header.

API calling URL: http://[ServerIP]/api/pat/actions-

Sorry for lack of basic knowledge for API things.

Sakito.

var requestURL = "http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/api/xxxxx/xxxx";
var credentials = "admin" + ":" + "xxxxxxx"; 
ogscript.debug(credentials);
var credentials64 = base64Encode(credentials);
ogscript.debug("base64Encode =" + credentials64);
params.setValue('Base64', 0, credentials64);
var creds = "Basic " + params.getValue('Base64', 0);
var headers = {};
headers["Authorization"] = creds;
headers["Content-Type"] = "application/json";

var bodyData = JSON.stringify({
    "command": "xxxxxxxxx",
    "deviceType": "xxxxxxxx",
    "params": {"key": "xxxxxxxxxx"},
    "devices": ["xxxxxxxxxxxxx"]
});

ogscript.asyncHTTP(requestURL, "POST", headers , bodyData, null);

I'm trying with this script.

According to Dsah Board debugger, Base64 encoding is not working.

I don't have any idea what's wrong with this.

Does someone have idea to fix?

Hi Sakito,

There isn't a working Base64 encode function in Dashboard unfortunately, it does look like you're on the right track. 

What method of authentication does the API require? - basic auth, OAuth, etc. Does the server require authentication before sending a key in reply before accepting messages?

Perhaps break the message down to begin with, create a simple auth POST and send this to the server, what responses does it return? - are there any error codes? 

You can convert messages to Base64 in Notepad++ if you require this for an auth message. 

Best regards, 

Richard