Invoking REST API via Groovy program outside of EPM Cloud – Authentication to EPM Cloud Part-2

This post is the continuation of the previous one where I explained how to read the User ID, Password, etc.. from a file in the Groovy Program. So the file containing the  User ID, Password, etc.. is a central repository where you need to change it only once.

In this post, I will extend that feature by using the encoding/decoding methods to encode the password and decode it wherever needed. So the password Is not exposed anywhere and no security breach of storing the password in a file or a program.

Let me divide this post into two parts

1. Encode the Oracle EPM authenticating Password using a Secret Key.

Kindly note I have used the AES encryption algorithm to encrypt the password.

 

Invoking REST API via Groovy program outside of EPM Cloud – Authentication to EPM Cloud

In this blog, we will see how to invoke the Oracle EPM REST API endpoints outside of Oracle EPM (as a standalone program accessing the REST API endpoints from any machine where the Groovy program can be executed). We all knew we can call Oracle EPM REST API endpoints from the Calculation Manager Business rules as Groovy rules but this is entirely different from that.