Hi Richard, This is incredibly helpful! I'll give these steps and information a shot with my local setup and see if I can work it out. Thank you all who reached out, it's very appreciated!
Nick On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 12:57:05 PM UTC-4 Richard Cyganiak wrote: > Hi Nick, > > By default, authentication is disabled in EDG Studio. When doing API > requests in this mode, a cookie with the user name, e.g., > “username=Administrator” should be included with every request. > > The EDG Studio documentation doesn’t have anything on configuring > authentication. This topic is covered in the docs for the full EDG server > product, but not all of that is applicable to Studio. > > To enable basic authentication, here is what works for me. > > First I create a file called setup.basic-auth.properties in the EDG Studio > directory. The file contains: > > authMethod=basic > securityRoles=administrator,manager,user,viewer > > (If you want to know what else can be configured in this file, launch > Studio in the usual way and navigate to > http://localhost:8083/assets/edg-setup/edg-setup.properties to get a > template. A few of the options won’t work in EDG Studio.) > > Now I edit the file conf/users.xml to define my users, passwords, and > roles. Note that all users and roles are commented out initially. The > <role> elements must match the list of securityRoles defined earlier in the > setup file. > > Now I launch EDG Studio with the shell command: edg -s > setup.basic-auth.properties > > EDG should launch with basic authentication enabled. The browser should > pop up a dialog asking for username and password. Any of the credentials > configured in users.xml should work. > > Initially, all roles will get administrator rights. To change that, I log > in and go to Server Administration > Rights Management, then select my > administrator role, and add AdministratorGroup to it. Then I select > ANY_ROLE and remove AdministratorGroup from it. Now, only members of the > administrator role will be able to access Server Administration etc. > > Now I can use incognito windows to log in as different users. > > Hope that helps, > Richard > > > > > > On 21 Jun 2023, at 16:16, Nick Sacoman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi there, > > Thanks so much for the quick response! Apologies for missing some key > information - I'm using EDG Studio. When I launch EDG Studio from > localhost, I'm automatically signed in as administrator. I'm a bit new to > the tool, so I have not configured the instance for Basic Authentication - > are there documentation references for doing so? > > Also - I did not specify, but the {taxonomy name} was a placeholder, I did > format that portion of the API URL as the Swagger UI instructed me to do. > > Thanks, > Nick > > On Wednesday, June 21, 2023 at 10:58:14 AM UTC-4 Richard Cyganiak wrote: > >> Hi Nick, >> >> Is this with EDG Studio or is it with edg.war on Tomcat? Which version of >> EDG? >> >> Has EDG been configured for HTTP Basic Authentication? In other words, >> when logging in to EDG in the browser, is the login form a browser popup >> dialog, as opposed to some kind of web form? >> >> The service URL looks a bit off. The {taxonomy_name} part should be the >> ID of the asset collection, without { } around it. You can find the URL by >> navigating to your asset collection in EDG, then going to the Reports tab, >> selecting Web Services Swagger UI, and finding exportRDFFile in the list. >> >> Hope that helps, >> Richard >> >> >> >> >> On 21 Jun 2023, at 15:05, Nick Sacoman <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> I currently am testing one of the API endpoints: specifically the >> exportRDFFile endpoint for a taxonomy. I've read the documentation and have >> configured BasicAuth with my Python request. I'm running into an error I >> will post below along with my code stub. I've tried this with all user >> accounts to no avail (it is on my localhost, I am the admin for more >> clarity). I would appreciate some pointers to get this cleared up. >> >> Code stub (Python3): >> `session = requests.Session()` >> `session.headers.update({"Connection": "Keep-alive"})` >> `res = session.get(" >> http://localhost:8083/tbl/service/{taxonomy_name}/tbs/exportRDFFile?format=json-ld";, >> >> auth=HTTPBasicAuth("user", "password")).text` >> >> Response (res): >> "Cannot invoke >> org.topbraid.auth.TBUser.canUpdate(org.topbraid.auth.Asset) because the >> return value of org.topbraid.auth.user.TBUserFactory.getUser() is null." >> >> -- >> The topics of this mailing list include TopBraid EDG and related >> technologies such as SHACL. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TopBraid Suite Users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/topbraid-users/d1702a77-1f11-4b86-883e-fe083954d627n%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/topbraid-users/d1702a77-1f11-4b86-883e-fe083954d627n%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> >> > -- > The topics of this mailing list include TopBraid EDG and related > technologies such as SHACL. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TopBraid Suite Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/topbraid-users/e0df0b2f-a4ca-4fcc-b4e2-b547be65effen%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/topbraid-users/e0df0b2f-a4ca-4fcc-b4e2-b547be65effen%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- The topics of this mailing list include TopBraid EDG and related technologies such as SHACL. 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