microsoft-dynamics-auth 1.0.0

Microsoft Power Platform authentication plugin for HTTPie.

microsoft-dynamics-auth

Microsoft Power Platform auth plugin for HTTPie

Installation

$ pip install microsoft-dynamics-auth

Verify that you see msft-power-platform under --auth-type by running

$ http --help

Configuration

To be able to execute requests you must setup the credentials for the target power platform environment. This auth plugin requires a clientid and secret for an app registerd in Active Directory. You must register an app in Active Directory and add it as an application user in the target power platform environment. Once you have the app configured in both AAD and Power Platform.

Use env-generator.py included in this repository to generate the credentials file .parc in user home directory.

$ python env-generator.py

This will generate a ~/.parc file to store power platform environment credentials. Paste credentials in the following format after the prompt and then press enter")

name: [SECTION_NAME] tenant: [TENANT] key: [CLIENT-ID] secret: [CLIENT-SECRET] resource: [ENVIRONMENT-URL]\n")

For example

name: dev-contoso tenant: contoso.onmicrosoft.com key: highlyconfenditialkey secret: highlyconfidentialsecret resource: https://dev-contoso.crm.dynamics.com")

You can also manually create the ~/.parc in the following format

[default]
tenant = contoso.onmicrosoft.com
key = 52a44848-095e-4882-a880-e8b8083714d8a
secret = highly-confidential-secret
resource = https://dev-contoso.crm.dynamics.com

[dev-contoso1]
tenant = contoso.onmicrosoft.com
key = 52a44848-095e-4882-a880-e8b8083714d8a
secret = highly-confidential-secret
resource = https://dev-contoso1.crm.dynamics.com

[dev-northwind]
tenant = northwind.onmicrosoft.com
key = f4d9f805-a172-4698-9228-518013cd04c5
secret = highly-confidential-secret
resource = https://dev-northwind.crm.dynamics.com

Usage

$ http --auth-type=msft-power-platform --auth='client-key:client-secret' https://your-org-name.your-crm-region.dynamics.com/api/data/v9.0

Use HTTPie sessions

Create session

$ http --session=logged-in --auth-type=msft-dynamics --auth='client-key:client-secret' your-org-name.your-crm-region.dynamics.com

Re-use auth

$ http --session=logged-in POST your-org-name.your-crm-region.dynamics.com hello=world