Getting an Oauth2 API access token using client_id and client_secret - help
Hi, I'm attempting to integrate external data into our SQL Server. The third-party data is from a solution called iLevel. They use token based Oauth2 APIs for access. The integration tool is ADF Pipelines. I'm not a data engineer but it has fallen upon me to complete this exercise. What I've attempted so far is failing and I don't know why. I would like your help on this. I'll explain what I've configured so far in the order I configured it. 1) To generate a client_id and client_secret, I logged on to the iLevel solution itself and generated the same for my account (call me 'Joe' account) and the Team account (call it 'Data team' account). I've recorded the client_id and client_secret for both users/accounts in notepad for reference. 2) I logged in Azure Data Factory using my 'Joe Admin' admin account (this is the account I need to log in with for any ADF development). 3) I created a Linked Service with the following configuration. Note how the Test connection was successful. I guess this means our ADF instance can connect to iLevel's Base URL. 4) I then created a dataset for iLevel. I configured this based on an online example I was following which I can't get working, so this configuration may be incorrect. 5) I then created a Pipeline which contains a 'Web' activity and a 'Set variable' activity. The Pipeline has a variable as shown below. The 'Web' activity has the following configuration: URL = is iLevel's token URL (it is different from the Base URL used in the Linked Service). Body = I've blocked out the client_id and client_secret (I'm using the client_id and client_secret generated for the 'Data team' account - remember I'm logged into ADF using the 'Joe Admin' account - not sure if this makes a difference) but have placed red brackets around where the start and end of each values is. I'm wrapping the values in any single or double quotes - not sure if I'm meant to. I'm not sure if I have configured the Body correctly. The ilevel documentation states to use an Authorization header, Content-Type header and Body - it states to the following is needed to obtain an access token, but it doesn't state exactly how to submit the information (i.e. how to format it). Notice how, in my configuration, I haven't used an Authorization header - this partly because an online example I've followed doesn't use one. If iLevel state to use one then I think I should but I don't know how to format it - any ideas? The 'Set variable' activity has the following activity. The idea is the access token is retrieved from the 'Web' activity and placed in the 'Set variable' "iLevel access token" variable. At this point I validate all and it comes back with no errors found. I then Debug it to see if it does indeed work but it returns an error stating the request contains an invalid client_id or client_secret. The client_id and client_secret values used are the exact same I generated from within the iLevel solution just a few hours ago. Is anyone able to point out to me why this isn't working? Have I populated all that I need to (as mentioned, iLevel say to use an Authorization header which I haven't but I don't know how to format it if I were to use one)? What can I do to get this working? I'm just trying to get the access token at the moment. I've not even attempted to extract the iLevel data and can't until I get a working token. iLevel's token have a 1 hour time-to-live so the Pipeline needs to generate a new token each time it's executed. You help will be most appreciated. Thanks.
