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Status Needs more information
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 8, 2024

Make authentications availability and location more flexible. For example, credentials for within body of request.

"Make authentications available for use within the body of or as parameters for the request. Some integrations and usecases like CURL or HTTPRequest I was looking to pass the credentials as a part of the body.  Perhaps you set an authentication for a specific integration (e.g., curl) then you can substitute them with variables      ""auth"": {        ""identity"": {            ""methods"": [""password""],            ""password"": {                ""user"": {                    ""domain"": {                        ""id"": ""default""                    },                    ""name"": $httpRequest.auth[""username""],                    ""password"": $httpRequest.auth[""password""]                }            }        },"

Idea priority Medium
  • Admin
    Shane Hadden
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    Nov 18, 2024

    After a sync up with engineering, we've got a way forward on this idea that is within reach for delivery.


    The proposed solution is the addition of a new authentication schema and action block to the Common integration. IMPORTANT:
    This would mark the first and only place in the product where an authKey's contents could become visible to the user in the debugger, the core dump, or the flow output.

    The authentication schema would have a single field, and the field could take any type of data: a number, a string, a boolean, an object, or an array. The data stored within is completely up to the user. The input field will have a clear warning in the description that the data placed inside will be accessible to whatever user has access. There would be a small size limit.

    The related "Get Config Data" block would be able to use ONLY the authentication type above, and would return the contents as its result output property. This would enable the use of the value(s) within via variable constructions like these:
    $Get_Config_Data_1.result (value of a simple type)
    $Get_Config_Data_1.result.my_value (value of a property of an object)
    $Get_Config_Data_1.result[3] (value of an array element by index)

  • Admin
    Shane Hadden
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    Oct 2, 2024

    The best way to meet this need is to create a native Pliant integration with the target system, which moves the authentication securely into its own authentication schema. These integrations can be created in <15 business days. Does that meet the need here? @Guest @Guest