Authenticate using a username and password. Return compact or extended SSO token. The compact token is the most used form (user:HASH) It will be the same within a period of time. If cookie is set, return SSO token as cookie as well.

URL: http[s]://<host>/[<prefix>/]user/authenticate[/1.0]

If you leave out the version, the current version of the service will be called.

• username optional String
  
  
  
• password optional String
  
  
  
• full required boolean
  Full SSO token, otherwise compact.
  
  
• cookie required boolean
  Return as cookie as well.
  
  
• SSO optional String
  Optional SSO token for authentication.
  
  

Allowed HTTP Methods:

• POST

Accept types:

• application/json
• application/xml
• application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• multipart/form

Accept charsets:

• UTF-8
• ISO-8859-1
• LATIN1

Output:

200 OK response type Token:

• token String
• expires Date

4XX Client Error Response {data:<Error string>} Usually wrong usage by the client.

5XX Server Error Response {data:<Error string>} Exception, error in the service.

Additional comments:

authenticate is automatically provided using method reflection.

This service is implemented using the Albicore:SimplifiedService framework.

How to call this service:

• POST JSON in body: { "full":<value>, "cookie":<value> }
• POST urlencoded in body: full=<value>&cookie=<value>
• POST multipart/form, encode parameters as parts.

About output:


• 200 OK All valid service executions will return OK response.
• 404 NOT FOUND Resource(s) was not found.
• 4XX error code Errors thrown indicate wrong usage.
• 500 INTERNAL ERROR Exceptions during execution.

The output is default JSON. Output can be controlled by the Accept header, set to one of the below:
• application/json for JSON format, see input description.