Authentication

This section explains the basic calls you need to authenticate against the platform.

This will be done using the provided user credentials, which are used to see which productions the user has access to.

Base Url

This documentation does not list the full url for API calls. The paths listed for API calls need to be preceded with the base url. This is the address of the environment you will be using for connecting to the API. In most cases this will be https://platform.limecraft.com/api/.

Login

The following assumes the user is not configured to use SAML 2.0-based authentication. Information about API-based SAML 2.0 authentication will be added in a future version of this documentation.

Log in with your username (or email address) and password from Limecraft Flow, and retrieve an access token. It is this access token that must be used for accessing the API with each subsequent call. As such, the login call is only used once per session. You can set rememberMe to true to remember the user for one week and keep their session active during that time.

Get Access Token

POST /authentication/login

This call will authenticate the user on the platform.

Details
Description

Provided the correct username and password, it returns the token that is to be used with all proceeding calls.

Parameters
Form Parameters
Name Description Required Type

password

The password for login

✔

String

redirectIfFailed

For saml based authentication. Url to redirect to if the Saml authentication fails. Usually https://platform.limecraft.com/#auth/error/

✘

String

redirectIfOk

For saml based authentication. After successful authentication, the browser will be redirected to redirectIfOk location.

✘

String

redirectIfPassword

The user will be redirected to the `redirectIfPassword` location if no password is provided

✘

String

redirectIfSAML

For saml based authentication.

✘

String

rememberMe

If `rememberMe` is set, the token generated with this call is has a timeout of 1 week instead of 1 hour.

✘

Boolean

username

The username or email for login

✔

String
Return Type

Object

Content Type

  • application/json

Responses
Table 1. http response codes
Code Description Datatype

200

The request was successful.

Object

401

The account is unauthorized or disabled.

Object

403

The account is locked.

Object
Technical Documentation/Developer/AuthDiag

The body of the request can be either form parameters, but an 'application/json' request with a json body is also accepted:

{
    "username": "john.doe",
    "password": "mysecret123!"
}

In case of wrong credentials provided, you can expect the following response:

{
    "type": "UnauthorizedError",
    "code": 401,
    "errorNumber": 0,
    "message": "wrongUsername was not authorized, the username / password combination you entered is invalid.",
    "data": null
}

However, if you provide the correct username/password combination, the response is

{
    "needsSecondToken":false,
    "status":200,
    "token":"THE_TOKEN"
}

This call returns a JSON object with a token field: {"token": "THE_TOKEN"}. This token is used as authentication for accessing the REST API, and should be used in all subsequent calls in one of the following methods:

  • Either in the Authorization header: Authorization: Bearer THE_TOKEN

  • Either as a query parameter: ?access_token=THE_TOKEN

  • Either as a cookie: MOJITO_SESSION_ID_V2=THE_TOKEN

Two-factor Authentication

When two-factor authentication is enabled, an additional authentication step is required. To enable it, on a user level, you can use this call

POST /user/{id}/enable2fa

This API call enables the user to use two-factor technique for authenticating.

Details
Description
Parameters
Path Parameters
Name Description Required Type

id

ID of the production.

✔

String
Body Parameters
Name Description Required Type

TwoFactorAuthenticationEnableRequest

Body of the request.

✘

TwoFactorAuthenticationEnableRequest

TwoFactorAuthenticationEnableRequest

Field Name Required Type Description Format

password

✘

String

redo

✘

Boolean

Run again, even if the workflow already ran in this context.

redoSingleTask

✘

Boolean

skipActiveWorkflowTest

✘

Boolean

token

✘

String

type

✘

String

Enum: PASSWORD, SAML, TWO_FA_EMAIL, TWO_FA_AUTHENTICATOR, TWO_FA_AUTHENTICATOR_ENABLING, TWO_FA_AUTHENTICATOR_DISABLING,

waitForWorkflow

✘

Boolean
Return Type

TwoFactorAuthenticationResponse

Field Name Required Type Description Format

digits

✘

Integer

int32

hashingAlgorithm

✘

String

key

✘

String

period

✘

Integer

int32

qr

✘

String
Content Type

  • application/json

Responses
Table 2. http response codes
Code Description Datatype

200

The request was successful.

TwoFactorAuthenticationResponse

403

The user can only request his own invitations or needs SUPPORT rights.

ForbiddenError

404

The user was not found.

NotFoundError

Two-factor authentication is a verification process which follows the well known principle of something the user knows and something the user has.

Users provide an extra verification token during authentication — a one-time password verification code based on the Time-based One-Time Password TOTP algorithm.

The first part of the authentication process remains the same as above. A token object is received, but instead of only getting the token an additional needsSecondToken property is provided, indicating that further authentication is required.

The client must generate the one-time password verification code, and pass it to the authentication token validation API call (see below), while at the same time authenticating that call with the access token received from the initial login call (either using the Bearer Authentication header or using the query string access_token).

2FA depends on clocks being properly synced. If the user has a machine of which the clock is out of sync, their 2FA codes will not match and login will fail. They must sync their clock.
Technical Documentation/Developer/2FAAuthentication

Generating the one-time password verification code

When enabling two-factor authentication for a particular, the API will return the following data:

{
  "key": "ABCDEFGHIJKLM",
  "qr": "data:image/png;base64,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",
  "hashingAlgorithm": "SHA512",
  "digits":  6,
  "period":  30
}

Using this information, the one-time password verification code can be generated. For example using this library.

const code = totp('ABCDEFGHIJKLM', {digits: 6, algorithm: 'SHA-1', period: 30})

The QR code can be used to configure authenticator apps such as Google Authenticator, 1Pass, Authy, and others.

Validating the 2FA token

The generated TOTP token is validated against the API with the /authentication/2fa/validate call in order to obtain a final access token that can be used for subsequent API access. The temporary access token obtained from the first-stage /authentication/login is used to provide the proper context.

The TokenAuthenticationRequest body is a JSON object in which the token is provided as follows:

{
  "rememberMe": true,
  "token": "123456"
}
POST /authentication/2fa/validate

__

Details
Description
Parameters
Body Parameters
Name Description Required Type

TokenAuthenticationRequest

✘

TokenAuthenticationRequest

TokenAuthenticationRequest

Field Name Required Type Description Format

rememberMe

✘

Boolean

token

✘

String
Return Type

RestToken

Field Name Required Type Description Format

message

✘

String

needsSecondToken

✘

Boolean

status

✘

Integer

int32

token

✘

String
Content Type

  • application/json

Responses
Table 3. http response codes
Code Description Datatype

0

default response

RestToken

Validate Token

Access tokens can be validated at any time with the following API call. The response is a User object, of which the most important properties are id, username and email.

GET /authentication/user

__

Details
Description
Parameters

✘

Return Type

User

Field Name Required Type Description Format

aboutMe

✘

String

activated

✘

Date

date-time

addressLine1

✘

String

addressLine2

✘

String

city

✘

String

country

✘

String

county

✘

String

created

✘

Date

The time when this resource was created

date-time

createdBy

✘

String

The request or process that created this resource

deleted

✘

Date

date-time

email

✔

String

emailHash

✘

String

firstName

✘

String

fixedLinePhone

✘

String

focus

✘

String

fullName

✘

String

hasAvatar

✘

Boolean

id

✔

Long

The id of this resource

int64

identityProvider

✘

String

lastIndexCompleted

✘

Date

date-time

lastIndexed

✘

Date

date-time

lastName

✘

String

lastSeen

✘

Date

date-time

lastUpdated

✘

Date

The time when this resource was last updated

date-time

mobile

✘

String

modifiedBy

✔

String

The request or process responsible for the last update of this resource

nameId

✘

String

objectType

✘

String

The data model type or class name of this resource

passwordResetTokenTime

✘

Date

date-time

refs

✘

String

type

✘

String

Enum: REGISTERED, SHARED, UNREGISTERED, ANONYMOUS,

username

✔

String

The username of the user, must be unique

version

✔

Long

The version of this resource, used for Optimistic Locking

int64

zipCode

✘

String
Content Type

  • application/json

Responses
Table 4. http response codes
Code Description Datatype

200

User is logged in.

User

Logout

User sessions can be logged out explicitly with the /authentication/logout call. If this call is not used, user sessions will time out eventually. However, it is best practice to log out users after a session or logical set of API interactions ends from the integration’s point of view, both for scalability reasons and to minimize security attack surfaces due to lingering user sessions.

The /authentication/logout can log out all active sessions associated with a single user. For this to happen, set the allSessions field of the LogoutRequest to true. This functionality can be useful to revoke user access centrally and across the entire platform. 
POST /authentication/logout

__

Details
Description
Parameters
Body Parameters
Name Description Required Type

LogoutRequest

✘

LogoutRequest

LogoutRequest

Field Name Required Type Description Format

allSessions

✘

Boolean

redirectIfFailed

✘

String

redirectIfOk

✘

String

redirectIfSaml

✘

String
Return Type

✘

Responses
Table 5. http response codes
Code Description Datatype

200

User has logged-out

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