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BlocksCanFly
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Error Creating PowerBI on-premise datasource using RestAPI

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()

 

after that i'm sending put request to
https://api.powerbi.com/v1.0/myorg/gateways/{gateway}/datasources
and generate body information accordingly to Microsoft documentation 
{

    "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'}}]}}}
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BlocksCanFly
Regular Visitor

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 17njPpZo9l.png

lbendlin
Super User
Super User

you seem to be decoding one too many times

 

encrypted_secret_b64 = base64.b64encode(encrypted_secret).decode()

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