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dbeavon
Contributor
3 years ago

REST API stopped working after upgrade to 7.1

In the prior version of onestream we had configured AAD authentication, and we had a service principal that would be used to process REST API requests (aka the onestream "web api").  This service pri...
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  • dbeavon's avatar
    dbeavon
    2 years ago

    HRunyon 

    Sorry, I opened that question on behalf of an admin at my company.  I am a software developer and wasn't actually doing the configuration work myself. I don't have much visibility (poking around blindfolded).

     

    I do know that we were able to get AAD authentication working again.  And 7.1.0 worked a lot more consistently with prior versions than I had expected (despite the scary notification that I shared from the release notes).

     

    I also remember that our admins had to open a ticket with OneStream support to get this figured out.  We didn't do it all by ourselves.

     

    From a developer standpoint, authentication for this OneStream REST API seemed strange.  The credentials of the remote REST client is a service-principal.  But the strange thing about this rest API is that OneStream uses the same service-principal credentials for the configuration on the server-side of things as well.  (It seemed like they don't have a firm grasp on oauth2 concepts.... or maybe it is implemented this way to be consistent with their other supported identity providers.)

HRunyon's avatar
HRunyon
New Contributor III
2 years ago

I am also having the same issue, did you ever get this resolved? Thank you in advance.

  • dbeavon's avatar
    dbeavon
    Contributor
    2 years ago

    HRunyon 

    Sorry, I opened that question on behalf of an admin at my company.  I am a software developer and wasn't actually doing the configuration work myself. I don't have much visibility (poking around blindfolded).

     

    I do know that we were able to get AAD authentication working again.  And 7.1.0 worked a lot more consistently with prior versions than I had expected (despite the scary notification that I shared from the release notes).

     

    I also remember that our admins had to open a ticket with OneStream support to get this figured out.  We didn't do it all by ourselves.

     

    From a developer standpoint, authentication for this OneStream REST API seemed strange.  The credentials of the remote REST client is a service-principal.  But the strange thing about this rest API is that OneStream uses the same service-principal credentials for the configuration on the server-side of things as well.  (It seemed like they don't have a firm grasp on oauth2 concepts.... or maybe it is implemented this way to be consistent with their other supported identity providers.)

    • DevenShah's avatar
      DevenShah
      New Contributor
      2 years ago

      What was the solution?