Vault API login using Java

[Anonymous]

Hello,

We are dealing with the same issue as http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/vault-customization/can-t-connect-to-vault-using-api/m-p/5789804/highl... except that we have always used Java (and unfortunately, this can't change).

Our old code signed in to Vault using the SecurityService and setting the SoapEndpoint address, then creating a security header with the results of our signin call using the specific vault/user information.

           SecurityServiceLocator loc = new SecurityServiceLocator();
            loc.setSecurityServiceSoapEndpointAddress("http://" + vaultServer + "/autodeskDM/Services/SecurityService.asmx");
            SecurityServiceSoapStub port = (SecurityServiceSoapStub)loc.getSecurityServiceSoap();

           port.signIn(userName, password, vaultName)


            SOAPHeaderElement soapHead = port.getResponseHeader("http://AutodeskDM/Services/Security/1/22/2015/", "SecurityHeader");
            NodeList secNodes = soapHead.getChildNodes();
            String ticket = null;
            long userId = -1;
            for (int i=0; i<secNodes.getLength(); i++)
            {
                Node n = secNodes.item(i);
                String nodeName = n.getNodeName();
                if (nodeName != null && nodeName.equals("Ticket"))
                {
                    ticket = n.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
                }else if (nodeName != null && nodeName.equals("UserId"))
                {
                    String userIdString = n.getFirstChild().getNodeValue();
                    userId = Long.parseLong(userIdString);
                }
            }
            securityHeader = new SecurityHeader(ticket, userId);

We now need to update to the Vault 2016 API and have to update or rewrite the code.   All help references I can find are for .NET, c#, VB etc. and seem to reference WebServicesTools classes that I cannot find.  Note: we use a wsdl to java class generator to get all the classes for WebServices.

My hope is that once I have WebServicesTools I can get the WebServiceManager or UserPasswordCredentials classes.  Is this the right approach? Where do I find those?  Any other ideas?

Thanks in advance!

[minkd]

If you are generating Java classes from the WSDLs you will not have the WebServiceManager or UserPasswordCredentials classes.  The reason is because those classes are not part of the web-service API - they are part of a C#/.NET client-side SDK which wraps all the C# classes that we generated from the WSDL. In the process of creating the C#/.NET client-side SDK from the web-service WDSLs, many things were added that are not part of the web-service API (dealing with the security header, automatic re-signin, automatic ownership transfer, etc).

Later we created another layer on top of the SDK called the VDF (also a C#/.NET library).  The VDF can do things such as fixing up the references between files after downloading a file whose children have been renamed or moved in the vault.

While it is still possible to call the web-service API directly, doing so excludes you from being able to take advantage of the SDK/VDF.

If you want to use the SDK and/or VDF from Java, IMHO, your best bet is probably a third party Java to C# bridge, or possibly JNI.

-Dave

[Anonymous]

We were able to dig through the classes and find a way around using a bridge. The original way our code was designed is, frankly, dumb, but we are stuck with it for now as a full redesign doesn't make sense. Thanks!

[james]

I am also Trying to connect to Vault 2016 via Java, How did you get the connection? Can you share some code to point me in the right direction?

[abroderickHBFN6]

Please tell me you (or somebody else) solved this problem... I'm facing it now.

Thanks!