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Zato Blog: Using OAuth in API Integrations
- OAuth can be a good choice for that scenario and this article shows how it can be achieved in Python, with backend
- An OAuth server issues time-based access tokens, which are simple strings, like web browser session cookies, confirming that such and such
- If a client system invokes the interoperability layer, the layer will obtain a token from the OAuth server and keep it in an internal cache.
- In OAuth terminology, what is described above has specific names, the overall flow of messages between Zato and the OAuth server is
- To invoke REST services, fill out a form as below, pointing the 'Security' field to the newly created OAuth definition.
- Here is sample code to invoke a backend REST system - note that we merely refer to a connection by its name, without having
- Similarly to REST endpoints, to invoke HL7 FHIR servers, fill out a form as below and let the 'Security' field point to the OAuth
- Here is sample code to invoke a FHIR server system - as with REST servers above, observe that we only refer to a connection by its name
- All of these aspects can and will be independent in practice,
- Yet, once more, regardless of what makes the input data available, the backend OAuth mechanism will work independently of it all.
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