Creating tokens from Maximo API

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IBM® Maximo®Asset Management API supports token creation and token revocation for both Basic Tenant Authentication and Advanced Authentication.

This section provides information and an example for issuing tokens. Issuing API requires type and customer fields in JSON payload. expirationdate field is optional, used a default expiration date when the value is null.

Note: Each field needs spi: prefix when you specify lean=0 in URL parameters for example spi:type.

Payload attributes:

Name Value Note
Type JWTBASIC  
Customer Customer Tenant ID  
Expirationdate Expiration Date Time Optional.Advanced Authentication only.

Request:

POST /maximo/oslc/cvapitoken?lean=1 HTTP/1.1
Host: <customer-id>.automotive.internetofthings.ibmcloud.com:443
maxauth: <Base64 code of username:password for {{site.data.keyword.maximoam_short}}>
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache

{
  "type": "JWT",
  "customer": "CUSTMER1",
  "expirationdate": "2019-07-14T16:33:57+00:00"
}

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/json
Cache-Control: no-cache

{
    "createddate": "2019-02-21T08:56:57+00:00",
    "expirationdate": "2019-07-14T16:33:57+00:00",
    "customer": "CUSTOMER1",
    "token": "eyJhbGciOiJIUzUxMiJ9.eyJqdGkiOiI1cVJHeEJfQXVVN2ptaE50Wnd6
    dTBBIiwic3ViIjoiSW9UIENvbm5lY3RlZCBWZWhpY2xlIEluc2lnaHRzIiwiaXNzIjo
    iQ0YgVEVTVCIsImlhdCI6MTU1MDczOTQxNywiZXhwIjoxNTYzMTIyMDM3fQ.K-FGpO7
    9IpEC0AyPA5_CBBUF_GEkSOL_r8qQ5Ld7eETrXxKZHpiq9rqoFrZ7uiusuzMzsz_aUJ
    VEpBvBTVxFAg"
}