Headers in Communications request

Former Member over 8 years ago

I try to implement a very simple Garmin Connect IQ app that downloads some tiny json data from a webservice. Webservice authentication is HTTP basic.

I try to implement it like this:

var authString = StringUtil.encodeBase64("someusername:somepassword");
authString = "Basic " + authString;

Comm.makeWebRequest(
"somewebserviceurl,
{

},
{
"Headers" => { "Authorization" => authString }
},
method(:onReceive)
);
It does not fetch the response, responsecode is 0, so it is not informative at all. If I try calling any webservice that does not need any authentication, it works, so the problem is the basic authentication.

What can be the problem? Thanks very much in advance!

travis.vitek over 8 years ago

There are two issues with your code.

the key in the options map is :headers, not "Headers". The former is a symbol and the latter is a string (see the docs).
you should specify your request parameters in the params parameter.

var url = "somewebserviceurl";

    var params = {
        "param" => 1
    };

    var options = {
        :headers => {
            "Authorization" => "Basic " + StringUtil.encodeBase64(Lang.format("$1$:$2$", [ someusername, somepassword ]))
        }
    };

    Comm.makeWebRequest(url, params, options, method(:onReceive));

Former Member over 8 years ago

Thanks a lot, it works! :)