MaskinportenTokenGenerator

This is a utilty for helping out with generating access_tokens from Maskinporten, supporting integration with Postman for automating retrieval of access_tokens via a local web server.

Requirements

• A recent Windows and Visual Studio 2017 or newer for building
• A enterprise certificate owned installed owned by the organization that has been given access to one or more scopes in machineporten
• A client id for an integration in Maskinporten provisioned with one or more scopes

Building

Open a Visual Studio 2017 or newer commandline environment, and run msbuild in the src-directory, or open the solution file and build within Visual Studio.

Usage

1. Set up config.cmd and configure the production and/or VER2-settings (optional: copy config.cmd to config.local.cmd which is in .gitignore and takes precendence over config.cmd)
2. Run either of the following utility scripts:
   • get_${env}_token Gets a access_token and places it on the clipboard (for easy pasting in Postman etc)
   • start_${env}_token_server Starts a simple HTTP-server listening on all interfaces on port 17823 by default. Any GET-request to http://localhost:17823 will attempt to fetch a access_token from Maskinporten and proxy the response.

Postman integration

By using the token server, you can add a "Pre-request script" in Postman, with somelike the following:

pm.sendRequest("http://localhost:17823/", function (err, response) {
    var json = response.json();
    if (typeof json.access_token !== "undefined") {
        pm.environment.set("BearerToken", json.access_token);
    }
    else {
        console.error("Failed getting token", json);
    }
});

Here "BearerToken" is an environment variable, which can be put in the "Token"-field in the "Authorization"-tab when type is set to "Bearer Token".

If you are testing MaskinportenAPI, see https://github.com/elsand/MaskinportenApiPostman for a pre-configured Postman collection

License

MIT