Authenticate

PEAK Connect Authenticate is used to retrieve an access token for use in subsequent requests. This is an HTTP GET resource that accepts username and password credentials.

Usernames and password will be provided to you by PEAK Connect support.

PEAK Connect URLs and Content Types

Resource URL

QA

http(s)://qa-connect.ascentgl.com/v1/authenticate.{xml,json}?username=&password=

Production

http(s)://connect.ascentgl.com/v1/authenticate.{xml,json}?username=&password=

JSON
XML

JSON Response

{ 
   “accessToken”: ”str1234″, 
   “expiresIn”: ”86400″, 
   “issued”: ”2012-12-13T12:12:12″,
   “expires”:”2012-12-14T12:12:12″
}

Authenticate Response Properties

Property Name	Data Type	Definition
accessToken	String	User access token to be used in subsequent calls to the PEAK Connect API
issued	String	Timestamp when the accessToken was first issued, formatted as yyyyMMddThh:mm:ss
expires	String	Timestamp when the accessToken will expire, formatted as yyyyMMddThh:mm:ss
expiresIn	Long Integer	Number of seconds for which the accessToken is valid, starting from the issued timestamp

XML Response

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”utf-8″?>
<AuthenticationResponse xmlns:xsi=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance” xmlns:xsd=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema” xmlns=”AuthenticationResponse”>
  <accessToken>str1234</accessToken>
  <expiresIn>86400</expiresIn> 
  <issued>2012-12-13T12:12:12</issued>
  <expires>2012-12-14T12:12:12</expires>
</AuthenticationResponse>

Authenticate Response Properties

Property Name	Data Type	Definition
accessToken	String	User access token to be used in subsequent calls to the PEAK Connect API
issued	String	Timestamp when the accessToken was first issued, formatted as yyyyMMddThh:mm:ss
expires	String	Timestamp when the accessToken will expire, formatted as yyyyMMddThh:mm:ss
expiresIn	Long Integer	Number of seconds for which the accessToken is valid, starting from the issued timestamp