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Update Credentials C#
Hi,
following the instructions given in this post: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/How-do-I-update-the-Credentials-after-I-upload-a-report-to-POWER/td-p/223243
I ended up with the following snippet:
var gateway = (await m_powerBIClient.Gateways.GetGatewayByIdWithHttpMessagesAsync (datasource.GatewayId,
cancellationToken: cancellationToken)).Body;
var credentials = AsymmetricKeyEncryptionHelper.EncodeCredentials (username, password, gateway.PublicKey.Exponent, gateway.PublicKey.Modulus);
var response = await m_powerBIClient.Gateways.UpdateDatasourceWithHttpMessagesAsync (
gateway.Id,
datasource.Id,
new UpdateDatasourceRequest (
new CredentialDetails (
credentials,
credentialType: "Basic",
encryptedConnection: "Encrypted",
encryptionAlgorithm: "RSA-OAEP",
privacyLevel: "Public"
)
),
cancellationToken: cancellationToken);But this leads to an internal server error. Do you know what is the missing part to get it running?
I have found out that the BadRequest was already in the GetGatewayByIdWithHttpMessagesAsync call. But nevertheless I found an easier way to handle the problem:
var request = new HttpRequestMessage ( new HttpMethod ("PATCH"), $"https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/gateways/{gatewayDatasource.GatewayId}/datasources/{gatewayDatasource.Id}"); request.Content = new StringContent ( $@" {{ 'credentialType': 'Basic', 'basicCredentials': {{ 'username': '{username}', 'password': '{password}' }} }}"); request.Content.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse ("application/json"); await m_powerBIClient.Credentials.ProcessHttpRequestAsync (request, cancellationToken);No nasty encryption as it is a secure connection anyway. Wondering why basic credentials are not supported by the C# API.
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Anonymous wrote:
Hi,
following the instructions given in this post: http://community.powerbi.com/t5/Developer/How-do-I-update-the-Credentials-after-I-upload-a-report-to-POWER/td-p/223243
I ended up with the following snippet:
var gateway = (await m_powerBIClient.Gateways.GetGatewayByIdWithHttpMessagesAsync (datasource.GatewayId, cancellationToken: cancellationToken)).Body; var credentials = AsymmetricKeyEncryptionHelper.EncodeCredentials (username, password, gateway.PublicKey.Exponent, gateway.PublicKey.Modulus); var response = await m_powerBIClient.Gateways.UpdateDatasourceWithHttpMessagesAsync ( gateway.Id, datasource.Id, new UpdateDatasourceRequest ( new CredentialDetails ( credentials, credentialType: "Basic", encryptedConnection: "Encrypted", encryptionAlgorithm: "RSA-OAEP", privacyLevel: "Public" ) ), cancellationToken: cancellationToken);But this leads to an internal server error. Do you know what is the missing part to get it running?
Anonymous
The code demo in this thread indeed works in my test when updating a datasource for a specific gateway. To have better troubleshooting, please add try..catch block to get the detailed error message for your code.
try{ //your code here } catch (HttpOperationException ex) { //Bad Request var content = ex.Response.Content; Console.WriteLine(content); }By the way, have you debugged the code and which code line raised the error?
I have found out that the BadRequest was already in the GetGatewayByIdWithHttpMessagesAsync call. But nevertheless I found an easier way to handle the problem:
var request = new HttpRequestMessage ( new HttpMethod ("PATCH"), $"https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/gateways/{gatewayDatasource.GatewayId}/datasources/{gatewayDatasource.Id}"); request.Content = new StringContent ( $@" {{ 'credentialType': 'Basic', 'basicCredentials': {{ 'username': '{username}', 'password': '{password}' }} }}"); request.Content.Headers.ContentType = MediaTypeHeaderValue.Parse ("application/json"); await m_powerBIClient.Credentials.ProcessHttpRequestAsync (request, cancellationToken);No nasty encryption as it is a secure connection anyway. Wondering why basic credentials are not supported by the C# API.
There is currently some issue with V2 client.Gateways.UpdateDatasourceAsync
The body which is sent using that method:
{ "credentialDetails": { "credentials": "{\"credentialType\":\"Basic\",\"basicCredentials\":{\"username\":\"usrnmame\",\"password\":\"password\"}}" } }where the correct one should be:
{ "credentialType":"Basic", "basicCredentials":{"username":"usrname","password":"password"} }Simple http request as pointed above will work just fine:)
