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Dear community I recently want to create fully automated process to add and recycle access keys to PowerBI datasource and i have problem with PowerBI Rest API. I can't create or modify datasource because of problems with key value.
I'm taking public key and modulus from datagateway
'publicKey': {'exponent': 'AQAB',
'modulus': '000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000=='
}
and I'm trying to encode this using python function.
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives.asymmetric import rsa, padding
from cryptography.hazmat.primitives import hashes
from cryptography.hazmat.backends import default_backend
import base64
modulus_b64 = ""
exponent_b64 = ""
secret = ""
modulus = int.from_bytes(base64.b64decode(modulus_b64), byteorder='big')
exponent = int.from_bytes(base64.b64decode(exponent_b64), byteorder='big')
public_numbers = rsa.RSAPublicNumbers(exponent, modulus)
public_key = public_numbers.public_key(default_backend())
encrypted_secret = public_key.encrypt(
secret.encode(),
padding.OAEP(
mgf=padding.MGF1(algorithm=hashes.SHA256()),
algorithm=hashes.SHA256(),
label=None
)
)
encrypted_secret_b64 = base64.b64encode(encrypted_secret).decode()
https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/gateways/{gateway}/datasources
{
"connectionDetails": "{\"extensionDataSourceKind\": \"Databricks\", \"extensionDataSourcePath\": \"{\\\"host\\\": \\\"adb-0000000000000000000.0.azuredatabricks.net\\\", \\\"httpPath\\\": \\\"/sql/1.0/warehouses/0000000000000\\\"}\"}",
"credentialDetails": {
"credentialType": "Key",
"credentials": "{\"credentialData\": [{\"name\": \"key\", \"value\": \"daasd==\"}]}",
"encryptedConnection": "Encrypted",
"encryptionAlgorithm": "RSA-OAEP",
"privacyLevel": "Organizational"
},
"dataSourceName": "DB01",
"dataSourceType": "Extension"
}
i'm allways getting this response. Do you know what might be couse of that?
{'error': {'code': 'DM_GWPipeline_UnknownError', 'pbi.error': {'code': 'DM_GWPipeline_UnknownError', 'parameters': {}, 'details': [{'code': 'DM_ErrorDetailNameCode_UnderlyingErrorMessage', 'detail': {'type': 1, 'value': 'The input is not a valid Base-64 string as it contains a non-base 64 character, more than two padding characters, or an illegal character among the padding characters. '}}, {'code': 'DM_ErrorDetailNameCode_UnderlyingHResult', 'detail': {'type': 1, 'value': '-2146233033'}}]}}}
Hi i though the same and i used microsoft tamplate from github. PowerBI-Developer-Samples/Python/Encrypt credentials at master · microsoft/PowerBI-Developer-Samples...
and still didn't worked. So i tired to make same request via gui and scout changes and find out this request use different
you seem to be decoding one too many times
encrypted_secret_b64 = base64.b64encode(encrypted_secret).decode()
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