Authentication Web Service
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This service provides simple authentication capability.
Before access to other Web Services is allowed, a session has to be established. The authentication ticket obtained upon succesful login is placed into subsequent SOAP header calls.
Note: Investigation into WS-Security is taking place.
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[edit] Data Types
[edit] AuthenticationResult
Encapsulates the result of an authentication request.
- string ticket - a string containing the user ticket for this session
- string username - the name of the user for whom this ticket applies
[edit] Methods
[edit] startSession
This method establishes a session with the repository and returns the user ticket. A session must be started before calls to other web services can be made.
AuthenticationResult startSession(string username, string password)
Parameters:
- username - the user name
- password - the password
Return:
- the authentication results, including the allocated ticket
[edit] endSession
This method ends the current session with the repository.
authenticate.endSession(string ticket)
Parameters:
- ticket - the ticket of the session to end.
