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Dear,

I am trying to create a custom connector for a third party API that uses a custom authentication method.

It basically needs two calls, one for getting an accesstoken, and one for getting the data (using the accesstoken). I don't know how I can implement this two-step flow in a custom connector.

The first call is:

curl --location --request POST 'https://thirdpartyurl.com/api/v2/users/me/login' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
--data-urlencode 'email=myemail@mydomain.com' \
--data-urlencode 'password=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'

which returns a JSON:

{
 "data": {
 "serverTime": "xxxxx",
 "accessToken": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
 "accessTokenExpiration": "xxxxxx",
 "refreshToken": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
 "refreshTokenExpiration": "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx",
 "authType": "user"
 }
}

the second call is:

curl --location --request GET 'https://thirdpartyurl.com/api/v2/data' \
--header 'Authorization: Bearer myaccesstokenfrompreviousrequest'

I have no idea how to setup this "custom" authentication model in the custom connector so I can call the "data" request so that it uses the other "authentication" request...

Are there any samples or specific tutorials available somewhere that explain this?

Thanks,

Koen

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Connector development