Tomas

It just need someone to implement various standards.  Right now I believe
it is purely TLS one way or mutual auth and also supports basic and digest.

Thanks

On Thu, Oct 10, 2019 at 11:00 AM Tomas Hudik <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Erik
> thank you very much for the mail.
>
> My try is not about coding API. I just want to know whether processors
> like  *InvokeHTTP, PostHTTP *can work with the access token(if you have
> some kerberized site).
> (the example I have provided is just for fast try)
>
> Do you know whether those processors can somehow work with access token
> (or is it planned to implement it in some future releases,...)?
>
> best, Tomas
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019 at 3:51 PM Erik Anderson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Tomas,
>>
>> I wouldnt hand code the API yourself.  You will get into serious
>> challenged to talk with all of the API endpoints, like deploying flows from
>> the NiFi Registry.
>>
>> The NiFi toolkit is what we use to talk to secure and unsecure (developer
>> sandbox) NiFi instances.
>>
>> https://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/toolkit-guide.html
>>
>> You can create 1 certificate user, like you did below, nifi-api
>>
>> tls-toolkit.sh client -c nifi-toolkit.mydomain.com -t
>> FooManInTheMiddleSecretJunk-p 8443 -D 'CN=nifi-api, OU=NIFI'
>>
>> you can use that JSON file, point the toolkit at the JSON file, create a
>> user in the NiFi UI called "CN=nifi-api, OU=NIFI"
>> and its just magic. It all works.
>>
>> I seem to remember we tried the python package nipyapi but it wasnt
>> working with a secured version of NiFi.
>>
>> Erik Anderson
>> Bloomberg
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 9, 2019, at 9:23 AM, Tomas Hudik wrote:
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have secured NiFi (TLS + Kerberos) and need to work with NiFi API.
>> From command line, I do:
>>
>>    1. generate access token:  *curl -k -d "[email protected]
>>    <[email protected]>&password=paSSword" -X POST
>>    https://df3-tt-master-01.domain.com:9443/nifi-api/access/token
>>    <https://df-test-master-01.cn.infra:9443/nifi-api/access/token>*
>>    2. using access token: *curl -k -X GET
>>    https://df3-tt-master-01.domain.com:9443/nifi-api/flow/about
>>    <https://df-dev-master-01.cn.infra:9443/nifi-api/flow/about> -H
>>    'Authorization: Bearer <access token>' *
>>
>> However, I cannot  generate and use access token within *InvokeHTTP,
>> PostHTTP. *
>>
>>
>>
>>    - Is it possible to use access token with those processors?
>>    - If not, is there any workaround (like other processor) how to use
>>    NiFi API within secured NiFi?
>>
>>
>> any idea/hint is highly appreciated! :)
>> thank you, Tomas
>>
>>
>>

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