Basic authentication from backend

Prerequisites

• Empty or existing Optimizely CMS.
• Optimizely Graph addon.
• Postman.

CMS configuration

1. Open your Optimizely CMS solution and install theOptimizely ContentGraph addon.

dotnet add Optimizely.ContentGraph.Cms

2. Update the appsetting.json file. (You should get this information from the Optimizely Support team).

"Optimizely": {
    "ContentGraph": {
      "GatewayAddress": "",
      "AppKey": "",
      "Secret": "",
      "SingleKey": "",
      "AllowSendingLog": "true",
      "ContentVersionSyncMode": "All",
      "SyncReferencingContents": "true",
      "EnablePreviewTokens": "true"
    }
  },

3. Run the website and run theOptimizely Graph content synchronization job.

Postman try out

1. Import https://cg.optimizely.com/app/swagger/swagger.json to a Postman collection.
2. Set up variables for the collection:
   • baseUrl – https://cg.optimizely.com.
   • appKey – AppKey value (same as above).
   • appSecret – Secret value (same as above).

3. Setup Authentication method, for simplicity, it should be Basic, and put your appKey as Username and appSecret as Password.

4. Start query restricted content items with headers: cg-username and cg-roles:

curl --location 'https://dev.cg.optimizely.com/content/v2' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'cg-roles: ["Everyone", "dministrators"]' \
--header 'cg-username: admin' \
--header 'Authorization: Basic V25KQmNtUlpSNTFYaDJuSmExMDRWV1BYZkcydlcxZUluOkYwaWRhcDRPQ1ZOc0JSQTJmdVpCVDNtYXVoaVl1QWtRcDM5SHduazB2dW1XblpoZytjbmg4QnpHVU5VQlVIYTM=' \
--data '{"query":"{\n    Content {\n        items {\n            Name\n            Status\n        }\n    }\n}","variables":{}}'

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Note

• cg-username – Optimizely CMS user.
• cg-roles – Optimizely CMS roles to access specific content items.