No authentication with accessToken

[Vinciepincie]

There seems to be no way to use an existing accessToken for authentication in here.
When you have a javascript backend this is no problem, however this package becomes useless if you don't.

I don't think it would take much effort to implement, i assume it just needs to skip the initial authentication process used to get the access token since that's already done.

Context where this is needed:
I'm working on a narrowcasting application where organizations can setup playlists with content (like Qlik sheets) to be displayed on screens. The authentication is done in our php backend via M2M oAuth. We have a Vue.js frontend.

Now if i want to get a list of sheets to select i have to use qlik-embed which is a bit odd for this. It already requires a sheet to be set before fetching sheets.

[nilzona]

Hey @Vinciepincie

Have you tried using the auth-module apikey with your token as the apiKey in the host-config?

Basically what it does is set headers to the api calls as:

headers: {
  Authorization: `Bearer ${hostConfig?.apiKey}`,
},

So existing tokens can be used through the apikey auth module.

hostConfig: {
 apiKey: "<token>"
}

[goldbergjeffrey]

@Vinciepincie , you should not use M2M for front-end applications. You can use OAuth impersonation and use the backend to acquire a frontend access token you can then store in session storage or temporarily.

If you're looking to get a sheet list, you can use qlik-api or qlik-embed to get it, just make sure you're referencing the access token via function.

See here for impersonation auth: https://qlik.dev/examples/authenticate-examples/oauth-m2m-impersonation/
and here for using qlik-api to get list of sheets: https://qlik.dev/examples/qlik-api-examples/app-sheet-list/#nodejs-using-an-api-key

A combination of these two should get what you want. Then you can add qlik-embed using the same access token (or a new one for the same user) and access the dom to change sheets.

https://qlikembed.qlikpoc.com/#sheet-nav Use the dropdown and flip between sales analytics and payables...or it may break. Some of the sheets are a bit janky.