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Hi All,
We are creating custom connector in visual studio using power query to get data from odata API.
Our API is using oAuth2.0 -
grant_type = "client_credentials",
Does anyone have any idea how to implement it, any help/lead will be appreciated.
We have taken help from this blog -
[DataSource.Kind="p2", Publish="p2.Publish"]
shared p2.Contents = () =>
let
output = gettoken()
in
output;
//Query Record Parameter
query = [
clientId = client_id,
clientSecret = client_secret,
grantType = "client_credentials",
scope="all"
];
gettoken = () =>
let
oauthRequest = Json.FromValue(query),
Response = Web.Contents(token_url, [
Content = oauthRequest,
Headers=[#"Content-type" = "application/json",#"Accept" = "application/json"], ManualStatusHandling = {400}
]
),
Parts = Json.Document(Response),
authToken = if (Record.HasFields(Parts, {"error", "error_description"})) then
error Error.Record(Parts[error], Parts[error_description], Parts)
else
"Bearer " & Parts[access_token],
Source=OData.Feed(odata_url,[#"Authorization" = authToken],null),
//end of do not edit section
User_View = Source{[Name="vw_rpt_user",Signature="table"]}[Data]
in
User_View;
// Data Source Kind description
p2 = [
TestConnection = (dataSourcePath) => { "p2.Contents", dataSourcePath },
Authentication = [
OAuth = [
StartLogin=StartLogin,
FinishLogin=FinishLogin
]
],
Label = Extension.LoadString("DataSourceLabel")
];
StartLogin = (resourceUrl, state, display) =>
let
authorizeUrl = token_url,
redirect_uri = odata_url
in
[
LoginUri = authorizeUrl,
CallbackUri = redirect_uri,
WindowHeight = 720,
WindowWidth = 1024,
Context = null
];
FinishLogin = (context, callbackUri, state) =>
let
// parse the full callbackUri, and extract the Query string
parts = Uri.Parts(callbackUri)[Query],
// if the query string contains an "error" field, raise an error
// otherwise call TokenMethod to exchange our code for an access_token
result = if (Record.HasFields(parts, {"error", "error_description"})) then
error Error.Record(parts[error], parts[error_description], parts)
else
gettoken()
in
result;
// Data Source UI publishing description
p2.Publish = [
Beta = true,
Category = "Other",
ButtonText = { Extension.LoadString("ButtonTitle"), Extension.LoadString("ButtonHelp") },
LearnMoreUrl = "https://powerbi.microsoft.com/",
SourceImage = p2.Icons,
SourceTypeImage = p2.Icons
];
p2.Icons = [
Icon16 = { Extension.Contents("p216.png"), Extension.Contents("p220.png"), Extension.Contents("p224.png"), Extension.Contents("p232.png") },
Icon32 = { Extension.Contents("p232.png"), Extension.Contents("p240.png"), Extension.Contents("p248.png"), Extension.Contents("p264.png") }
];
Solved! Go to Solution.
@Anonymous
Not familiar with Oth2 with api, have a look at this post see if it helps.
Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
If this post helps, please Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.
@Anonymous
Not familiar with Oth2 with api, have a look at this post see if it helps.
Paul Zheng _ Community Support Team
If this post helps, please Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.