First Data Connector Rest API

[sugna66]

Hello, I am new to the world of Power Query and M... Power BI for that matter. 

I am trying to create a data connector to our REST API and running into some difficulty. 

When I login authenticating via UsernamePassword I get a table back with my hash token in the second column, fifth row down.

The table columns are Name, Value and the row is Name = hash and Value = "sdda009dwdeweassdsdsas" (for example). 

I am trying to add that hash back into my table request as follows. I apologize in advance for what you're about to see as this is my first day in power query: 

let

Credential = Extension.CurrentCredential(),

CredentialConnectionString = [ UID = Credential[Username], PWD = Credential[Password] ],


source = Web.Contents(url & "/api/login/" & CredentialConnectionString[UID] & "/" & CredentialConnectionString[PWD], [ Headers = DefaultRequestHeaders ]),
hashrow = source{5},
hash = hashrow{1},
report = Web.Contents(url & "/api/report/1/output/Reports/Sugna66/test_test?auth=" & [hash], [ Headers = DefaultRequestHeaders ]),
json = Json.Document(report)
in
source;

As you can see I don't really understand the table calls yet. Any help with this would be appreciated. 

Cheers,

[sugna66]

Bump? Any love here? 

[Anonymous]

@sugna66 ,

What data format and fields would your REST API return? Power BI Desktop returns all the data the REST API provides.

Regards,
Lydia

[sugna66 · Accepted solution]

Thanks, 

eventually, I figured it out: 

SynDNAImpl = (url as text) =>

let
Credential = Extension.CurrentCredential(),

CredentialConnectionString = [ UID = Credential[Username], PWD = Credential[Password] ],

login = Record.ToTable(Json.Document(Web.Contents(url & "/api/login/" & CredentialConnectionString[UID] & "/" & CredentialConnectionString[PWD], [ Headers = DefaultRequestHeaders ]))),
FilterLogin = Table.SelectRows(login, each _[Name] = "hash" ),
hash = List.First(Table.Column(FilterLogin, "Value")),
source = Web.Contents(url & "/api/report/1/output/Reports/Angus/test_test?auth=" & hash, [ Headers = DefaultRequestHeaders ]),
json = Json.Document(source)

in
json;

It seems like much but it worked for logging in grabbing a report.