Custom Authentication Microflow Parameters

Introduction

The custom authentication microflow of a published REST service is executed whenever a client calls one of the operations. The client’s requests contains headers and may contain query parameters, which can be passed to the authentication microflow.

When you click Parameters next to the authentication microflow, the Authentication microflow arguments dialog box appears. In this dialog box, you can set the parameters.

Parameters

The information below gives an overview of the microflow parameters and explains where their values are taken from. Click Add to add a parameter, and Edit to change a parameter.

Make sure that you add all microflow parameters here.

Parameter Type

Specify where the parameter comes from. Possible values are:

• Query – when the request contains a query string such as ?name=John&age=42, you can pass these to the microflow by adding query parameters. For more information, see Published REST Query Parameters.

• Header – the value of a header parameter is taken from the (first) request header with that name.

Name

The name of the parameter. For a header parameter, this should be the name of the request header.

Data Type

Specify the type of the parameter. Only primitive types are supported.

Microflow Parameter

Specify the microflow parameter that will be filled with the value from this operation parameter. You should always select one.