Update Credentials C#

[Anonymous]

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...

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?

[Eric_Zhang]

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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...

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?

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@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?

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

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.

[nicksav]

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:)