Bearer Token Authentication

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Hi Experts, 
 Third party app admin has provided me API to call along the bearer token to authorize. 
 Kindly suggest if Appian can use such bearer token Authorize the API calls or not if yes then can we use it in our connected system or not, for now I have used it directly in the integration object as header but its not working. 
 
 While using below Request payload in Appian Integration object its not being read properly because of the [ ] brackets. {
 "advanced_search": {
 "condition_rules_attributes": [
 {
 "type": "ProfileTypeRule",
 "comparison_operator": "==",
 "value": "some vale" 
 },
 {
 "type": "ProfileStatusRule",
 "comparison_operator": "==",
 "value": "Active"
 },
 {
 "type": "ProfileAttributeRule",
 "condition_object_id": "some value",
 "object_type": "NeAttribute",
 "comparison_operator": "==",
 "value": "some value"
 }
 ]
 }
}

Stefan Helzle · Accepted Answer

That's the correct way. As I describer above, I had an issue with some additional spaces, coming from copy&paste actions. Once cleaned up, the syntax "Bearer jasfz793qgfuaigfu99393" with exactly a single space works.

Mike Schmitt · Answer

Ironically I was just working on this issue yesterday and at least for my system, found the correct syntax is passing the header name "Authorization" and value "Bearer *******" where *** = the token string itself (no quotes or single quotes or anything in the evaluated string of course). 
 This might vary by system though - for instance, the "bullhorn" personnel system requires the header name to be "BhRestToken" and the token is passed in plainly. Other systems might have different configurations that override the normal default, AFAIK.

Stefan Helzle · Answer

For that JSON like structure, I highly suggest to use the correct Appian dictionary syntax. Appian will then turn it into JSON automatically. 
 
 GauravSingh said: Kindly suggest if Appian can use such bearer token Authorize the API calls or not if yes then can we use it in our connected system or not, for now I have used it directly in the integration object as header but its not working. 
 Sure, Appian does support Bearer authentication. Just check the docs. What exactly does "not working" mean?

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