Secure API with API Key-pair

Steps

• 1. Configure Authentication Method for API Product

• 2. Generate Key for Application

• 3. Promote Changes to APIcasts (API Gateways)

• 4. Testing

1. Configure Authentication Method for API Product

1. Click on dropdown list menu then select Products. And then click on Human Resource Services link to open product dashboard.

   

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2. Select Integration -> Settings menu from left panel. Then select App_ID and App_Key Pair The application is identified... option.

   

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3. Scroll down to the bottom of the page then click Update Product button.

   

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2. Generate Key for Application

1. Select Applications -> Listing menu from left panel. Then click Test Corp HR Mobile link.

   

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2. Click Add Random key link to generate a random Application key.

   

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3. An Application key should be generated. This key pair ( Application ID and Application key) will be used as a credential for API calls.

   

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3. Promote Changes to APIcasts (API Gateways)

1. Click on Back button of web browser to go back to previous page.

   

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2. Select Integration -> Configuration menu from left panel. Then click Promote v.N to Staging APIcast button to promote changes to staging API gateway and click Promote v.N to Production APIcast button to promote changes to production API gateway.

   

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4. Testing

1. Open Application dashboard following these steps, then use Application ID and Application key values to update Postman environment variables.

   

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2. Open Postman then update app-id and app-key variables, and then click Save button.

   

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3. Test the APIs using 3Scale API Testing (API Key Pair Auth) collection.