Authentication

GeminiDB supports token-based authentication.

The validity period of a token is 24 hours. If a token is required, the system caches the token to avoid frequent calling.

A token specifies temporary permissions in a computer system. During API authentication using a token, the token is added to a request to get permissions for calling the API.

If you want to use a token for authentication, you need to obtain the user's token and add X-Auth-Token to the request header of the service API to make an API call.

When you call an API to obtain a user token, set auth.scope in the request body to project.

{
    "auth": {
        "identity": {
            "methods": [
                "password"
            ],
            "password": {
                "user": {
                    "name": "username",
                    "password": "password",
                    "domain": {
                        "name": "domainname"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "scope": {
            "project": {
               "name": "xxxxxxxx"
             }
        }
    }
}

After a token is obtained, add field X-Auth-Token to the request header to specify the token when other APIs are called. For example, if the token is ABCDEFJ...., add X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ.... to a request header as follows:

 
POST https://iam.eu-west-101.myhuaweicloud.eu/v3/auth/projects
Content-Type: application/json 
X-Auth-Token: ABCDEFJ....