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=Starling device Registration and access=
 
=Starling device Registration and access=
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'''Every API request should include the token obtained above as a parameter in url or header.'''
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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! http verb !! Request !! Response!!Description
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|-
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| POST
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|| /api/authenticate
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|| token
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||Pass email and password as body parameter to obtain a web token
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|}
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=Messaging=
 
=Messaging=

Revision as of 17:40, 31 December 2015

Authentication

Starling API works on javascript web-tokens. The default validity for the tokens is 1 year. It will be changed to shorter duration soon.

Base URL for all requests: http://starling.exploreembedded.com

Obtaining the token

http verb Request Response Description
POST /api/authenticate token Pass email and password as body parameter to obtain a web token

Example with CURL

  • Request
curl -X POST -F "email=your@email.com" -F "password=password" \ 
'http://starling.exploreembedded.com/api/authenticate'
  • Response
{"token":"eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXUyJ9.eyJzdWIiOiIyIiwiaXNzIjoiaHR0c
DpcL1wvc3RhcmxpbmcuZXhwbG9yZWVtYmVkasdfdsfNvbVwvYXBpXC9hdXRoZW50.
iwiZXhwIjoiMTQsdfeaeSEFEA0NiIsIm5iZiI6IjE0NTE1NjMwNDYiLCJqdGkiOiI4asdfew}
  • You may also use the postman client

example with postman

Starling device Registration and access

Every API request should include the token obtained above as a parameter in url or header.

http verb Request Response Description
POST /api/authenticate token Pass email and password as body parameter to obtain a web token

Messaging