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Anonymous
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Custom Data Connector: Refreshing JWT Handling

Hello,

I am currently working on developing a Custom Data Connector which calls a Security API for a refreshable JWT that expires in 30 minutes.

This token is passed to the header of the data API request. The data API is paginated by incrementing the "page" variable in the URL by 1. I achieve this in a loop to return all my results in one table.

The data API request returns an updated JWT token in the response header, but as I understand it there is no way for me to access that using Value.Metadata for security reasons.

I am trying to figure out how I can refresh my JWT or include it in my pagination loop so the token does not expire while making my calls to the data API.

This API does not adhere to OAuth standards.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

section test_help;

[DataSource.Kind="test_help", Publish="test_help.Publish"]
shared test_help.Contents = (optional message as text) =>
            
        //getPages function
        let getPages = (Page as number) as table =>
            //security API url 
            let url = "https://sapif.callminer.net/security/getToken",

                //Authentication credentials passed to body of feapif
                body = "{""Username"": ""fake"", ""Password"": ""fake"", ""ApiKey"": ""fake""}",
                Parsed_JSON = Json.Document(body),
                BuildQueryString = Uri.BuildQueryString(Parsed_JSON),
 
                //endDate Variable to capture current date time in UTC
                endDate = DateTimeZone.LocalNow(),

                //date search GET Request
                Host = "https://feapif.callminer.net/api/v2/export/datesearch",

                //custom date search path with DateTimeZone.ToText for enddate and page parameter for pagination
                //score ID 58 for MS and 55 for WC
                Path = "?startDate=2021-05-01T12%3A00%3A00.000Z&stopDate="&DateTimeZone.ToText((endDate)) & "&page="& Number.ToText(Page) &"&records=50&clientCaptureDate=true&scoreIds=58,55",
                Source =   [
                            //JWT auth token passed to Data API header
                            token = Json.Document(Web.Contents(url,[Headers = [#"Content-Type"="application/json; charset=utf-8"], Content = Text.ToBinary(body) ] )),
                            Source =  Json.Document(Web.Contents(Host,
                            [RelativePath=Path,Headers=[#"Content-Type"="application/json; charset=utf-8", Authorization="JWT " & token]]))
                            ],
                Source1 = Source[Source],

                #"Converted to Table" = Table.FromList(Source1, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), null, null, ExtraValues.Error) , 
                #"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Column1", {"RecordInfo", "Contact", "Attributes", "Measures", "Others", "Sections", "Categories", "Scores", "ScoreComponents"}, {"Column1.RecordInfo", "Column1.Contact", "Column1.Attributes", "Column1.Measures", "Column1.Others", "Column1.Sections", "Column1.Categories", "Column1.Scores", "Column1.ScoreComponents"}),
                #"Expanded Column1.RecordInfo" = Table.ExpandRecordColumn(#"Expanded Column1", "Column1.RecordInfo", {"Id", "RowNumber", "TotalRowCount"}, {"Column1.RecordInfo.Id", "Column1.RecordInfo.RowNumber", "Column1.RecordInfo.TotalRowCount"})

            in #"Expanded Column1.RecordInfo",

                //Pagination loop
   
                //Define function
                Source = try List.Generate( ()=> 
                                //try getPages (initialize page variable at 1), if records returned are not null increment page +1 if null stop. Convert list of records to table. 
                                [Result = try getPages(1) otherwise null, Page = 1], 
                                each [Result] <> null, 
                                each [Result = try getPages([Page]+1) otherwise null, Page = [Page]+1],
                                each [Result]
                                ) 
                         otherwise {"1","null","null"},

                     //try catch block to capture empty lists/records
                    #"Converted to Table" = try Table.FromList(Source, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), 1, null, ExtraValues.Error) otherwise Table.FromList({"1"}, Splitter.SplitByNothing(), 1, null, ExtraValues.Error) ,
                    #"Expanded Column1" = Table.ExpandTableColumn(#"Converted to Table", "Column1", {"Column1.RecordInfo.Id", "Column1.RecordInfo.RowNumber", "Column1.RecordInfo.TotalRowCount", "Column1.Contact", "Column1.Attributes", "Column1.Measures", "Column1.Others", "Column1.Sections", "Column1.Categories", "Column1.Scores", "Column1.ScoreComponents"}, {"Column1.RecordInfo.Id", "Column1.RecordInfo.RowNumber", "Column1.RecordInfo.TotalRowCount", "Column1.Contact", "Column1.Attributes", "Column1.Measures", "Column1.Others", "Column1.Sections", "Column1.Categories", "Column1.Scores", "Column1.ScoreComponents"})
         in #"Expanded Column1";

 

 

3 REPLIES 3
v-yiruan-msft
Community Support
Community Support

Hi @Anonymous ,

Please review the solution in the following threads which has the similar problem with yours, hope they can also help you resolve the problem.

requests to a JWT API token

Decode JWT token in custom connector

Power BI - Get JWT Token from Auth API

access token

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ Rena
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
Anonymous
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Thank you for your response. I have already retrieved my access token, I am trying to figure out how to refresh it. 

Hi @Anonymous ,

I'm sorry that I'm not familiar with this. I found some threads with similar problem here, hope they can help you.

Custom Connector Token Refresh?

Refresh Tokens

Best Regards

Community Support Team _ Rena
If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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