On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 1:40 PM, Sanjeewa Malalgoda <sanje...@wso2.com> wrote:
> The purpose of implementing client tool is to ease admins/devopts task. If > we think of end user point of view(api creator) client tool do not help > much. > I don't believe usual API creator, publishers will use this client much. > If we need to let them to export API then we should give them UI option. > > So most of the time this will be use by system administrators and devopts > people to move artifacts between environments. In such cases creating new > application and embedding it to app would not be a problem. And also if > this is more of admin tool then we can use other securing mechanisms such > as basic auth. > The import/export tool is a client side library which consumes the product REST APIs. Since the REST APIs are protected over OAuth I don't think using Basic Auth is an option. > > Thanks, > sanjeewa. > > On Fri, Aug 19, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Kaveesha Perera <kavee...@wso2.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Currently I'm working on a client side tool that consumes REST APIs for >> API import/export feature of APIM (Refer to my previous email labeled [1]). >> There OAuth life cycle goes as follows. >> >> User asked to give a application name on the configuration file.Using >> that, tool create a client application calling DCR endpoint to obtain >> consumer keys and consumer secretes required to generate tokens that are >> needed for import and export of APIs. In the case where user didn't provide >> any application name, tool's default name will be used for the above. >> >> If the application already exists and only if the user is the owner of >> that particular application, consumer key and the consumer secret of the >> existing application will be returned by the DCR endpoint. >> >> If any feedback on this process please do reply. >> >> *[1] Facilitating Updating API with import/export tool in APIM * >> >> Regards, >> -- >> Kaveesha Perera >> Intern - Software Engineering >> >> mobile: 0716130471 >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Architecture mailing list >> Architecture@wso2.org >> https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture >> >> > > > -- > > *Sanjeewa Malalgoda* > WSO2 Inc. > Mobile : +94713068779 > > <http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/>blog :http://sanjeewamalalgoda. > blogspot.com/ <http://sanjeewamalalgoda.blogspot.com/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Architecture mailing list > Architecture@wso2.org > https://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/architecture > > -- Nuwan Dias Software Architect - WSO2, Inc. http://wso2.com email : nuw...@wso2.com Phone : +94 777 775 729
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