You can authenticate with Agile Central to create your own instance of the Rally connector through the UI or through APIs. Once authenticated, you can use the connector instance to access the different functionalities offered by the platform.
Authenticate Through the UI
Use the UI to authenticate with Agile Central and create a connector instance. You will need the API key that you identified in API Provider Setup.
Authenticate Through API
Step 1. Create an Instance
To provision your Agile Central connector, use the /instances
API.
Below is an example of the provisioning API call.
- HTTP Headers: Authorization- User , Organization
- HTTP Verb: POST
- Request URL: /instances
- Request Body: Required – see below
token is returned upon successful execution of this API. This token needs to be retained by the application for all subsequent requests involving this connector instance.
A sample request illustrating the /instances
API is shown below.
HTTP Headers:
Authorization: User <INSERT_USER_SECRET>, Organization <INSERT_ORGANIZATION_SECRET>
This instance.json file must be included with your instance request. Please fill your information to provision. The “key” into SAP Open Connectors Agile Central is caagilecentral
. This will need to be entered in the “key” field below depending on which connector for which you wish to create an instance.
{
"element": {
"key": "caagilecentral"
},
"configuration": {
"api.key": "_W92rae67SBm8zOi8wA6a15RF4NvEnkqcNyIZAk3g"
},
"name": "instance1"
}
Here is an example cURL command to create an instance using/instances
API.
Example Request:
curl -X POST
-H "Authorization: User <INSERT_USER_SECRET>, Organization <INSERT_ORGANIZATION_SECRET>"
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
-d
'{
"name": "<INSTANCE_NAME>",
"configuration": {
"api.key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
}
}
If the user does not specify a required config entry, an error will result notifying him/her of which entries he/she is missing.
Below is a successful JSON response:
{
"id": 123456,
"name": "<INSTANCE_NAME>",
"createdDate": "2019-09-20T10:40:37Z",
"token": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"elementId": 12345,
"tags": [
"<TAGS>"
],
"provisionInteractions": [],
"valid": true,
"disabled": false,
"maxCacheSize": 0,
"cacheTimeToLive": 0,
"configuration": {
"bulk.add_metadata": null,
"allow.select.fields": "true",
"base.url": "<BASE_URL>",
"event.notification.subscription.id": null,
"default.select.fields.map": null,
"webhook.id": null,
"event.notification.basic.username": "",
"bulk.query.field_name": "LastUpdateDate",
"pagination.max": "200",
"event.notification.basic.password": "********",
"event.vendor.type": "webhooks",
"bulk.query.operator": ">=",
"bulk.query.date_mask": "yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss",
"bulk.attribute.created_time": "CreationDate",
"bulk.query.download_format": "JSON",
"api.key": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
"event.notification.instance.finder": null,
"bulk.relations": null,
"pagination.type": "page",
"event.notification.callback.url": null,
"event.notification.signature.key": null,
"authentication.time": null,
"event.notification.enabled": "false"
},
"authenticationType": "custom",
"eventsEnabled": false,
"cachingEnabled": false,
"externalAuthentication": "none",
"traceLoggingEnabled": false,
"organizationId": xxxx,
"accountId": xxxxx,
"userId": xxxxx,
"element": {},
"user": {
"id": xxxxx
}
}
Instance Configuration
The content in the configuration
section or nested object in the body posted to the POST /instances
or PUT /instances/{id}
APIs varies depending on which connector is being instantiated. However, some configuration properties are common to all connectors and available to be configured for all connectors. These properties are -
event.notification.enabled
: This property is aboolean
property, and determines if event reception (viawebhook
orpolling
) is enabled for the connector instance. This property defaults to false.event.vendor.type
: Whenevent.notification.enabled
property is set to true, this property determines the mechanism to use to receive or fetch changed events from the service endpoint. The supported values arewebhook
andpolling
. Most connectors support one mechanism or the other, but some like Salesforce.com support both mechanisms. This property is optional.event.notification.type
: This property can be used to determine how an event notification should be sent to the consumer of the connector instance, in most cases your application. Currently,webhook
is the only supported value for this property. This means that when an event is received by the connector instance, it will get forwarded to the providedevent.notification.callback.url
via awebhook
to you. This property is optional.event.notification.callback.url
: As mentioned above, the value of this property is anhttp
orhttps
URL to which we will post the event for consumption by your application. This property is optional.filter.response.nulls
: This property defaults to true, i.e., it'sboolean
property, and determines ifnull
values in the responseJSON
should or should not be filtered from the response returned to the consuming application. By default, allnull
values are filtered from the response before sending the response to the consuming application.