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Source system connectivity and metadata operations including credential validation, metadata retrieval, and preflight checks.

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Authentication & metadata

Source system connectivity and metadata operations including credential validation, metadata retrieval, and preflight checks.

Endpoints

Test authentication

POST

/workflows/v1/auth

Verify source system connection credentials and authentication parameters without performing any data operations. Validates connection string, authentication tokens, SSL certificates, and network accessibility. The exact shape of the request body is defined by the credentials needed by the app.

Request Body

application/jsonRequired

Source system credentials for the connection to validate. The payload is deserialized into the handler's typed AuthInput and dispatched to handler.test_auth().

authTypestringREQUIRED

Source system authentication method

Enum:

"basic""oauth""token"

Example:"basic"

hoststringREQUIRED

Source system hostname or IP address

Example:"localhost"

portintegerREQUIRED

Source system port number

Example:

usernamestringREQUIRED

Source system username for authentication

Example:"username"

passwordstringREQUIRED

Source system password

Example:"password"

databasestringREQUIRED

Target database name or schema identifier for connection scope

Example:"databasename"

extraobjectoptional

Extended authentication parameters including SSL certificates, API keys, OAuth tokens, private keys, and database-specific connection options, automatically parsed from JSON string or object format

Example:

{
  "ssl_cert": "-----BEGIN CERTIFICATE-----...",
  "api_key": "sk-1234567890abcdef",
  "oauth_token": "bearer_token_123",
  "ssl_mode": "require"
}

Response

200Authentication test completed

successbooleanREQUIRED

Whether authentication was successful

Example:

true

messagestringREQUIRED

Authentication result message

Example:"Authentication successful"

Error Codes

400

Bad Request

Invalid request parameters or malformed JSON payload

401

Unauthorized

Missing or invalid authentication token

500

Internal Server Error

Source system connectivity or authentication error

Code examples - Test authentication

cURL
Python

BASH Request (cURL)

curl -X POST "http://localhost:8000/workflows/v1/auth" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
  "authType": "basic",
  "host": "localhost",
  "port": 5432,
  "username": "username",
  "password": "password",
  "database": "databasename"
}'

Python Request (Python)

import requests

response = requests.post(
  "http://localhost:8000/workflows/v1/auth",
  json={
      "authType": "basic",
      "host": "localhost",
      "port": 5432,
      "username": "username",
      "password": "password",
      "database": "databasename"
  }
)
auth_result = response.json()