Support HTTP Basic Auth for client generation

[akkie]

It isn't possible to create a client if the API is protected with HTTP Basic Auth.

It should be possible to pass the credentials in the URL. Maybe like:

http://user:password@host/api-docs special-key

[jfelectron]

+1 Is any auth supported? Another person on my team was trying to use swagger-codegen with oauth and no dice their either.

[fehguy]

You can pass headers when running the codegen with the following system property:

-Dheader="key:value"

So for the password "password", you could simply run btoa("password") to get the basic auth password, and pass it as a header:

-Dheader="Authorization:Basic cGFzc3dvcmQ="

That will let you pass any header (including basic auth) to the codegen.

When actually using the client, I believe all libraries support passing headers. For example in java:

https://github.com/wordnik/swagger-codegen/blob/master/samples/client/petstore/java/src/main/java/com/wordnik/client/ApiInvoker.java#L32

ApiInvoker.getInstance().addDefaultHeader("Authorization", "Authorization:Basic cGFzc3dvcmQ=")

[jfelectron]

Thanks. We"ll try this.

[gchan1979]

About adding -Dheader="Authorization:Basic cGFzc3dvcmQ=", does it imply the generated API clients would have hard-coded username and password?

[fehguy]

No, this simply applies the header during codegen

[akkie]

Adding -Dheader="Authorization:Basic cGFzc3dvcmQ=" doesn't work, because of the space inside the string.

$ bin/php-payment.sh -Dheader="Authorization:Basic cGFzc3dvcmQ="
No such file or class on classpath: cGFzc3dvcmQ=

@see https://www.google.de/?gws_rd=ssl#q=JAVA_OPTS+spaces

[StephanBeutel]

This doen't work for me. I only get this exception:

java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL:

[fehguy]

will make sure this is tested for 2.1.0-m1

[keithchong]

Hello, I am still getting a Server returned HTTP response code: 401 for URL when I try to generate the java client code. Do you need to provide -auth?

[fehguy]

@keithchong please open a new issue. I'm sure this is supported so perhaps a usage issue.

[keithchong]

Hi Tony, will do. I'm using v2.1.5.