authentication/token

Full path	authentication/token
HTTP Verb	POST
Description	This endpoint expects an HTTP POST request with Content-Type ‘application/json’ and in the body ‘{ "grant_type" : "client_credentials" }’. Authorization happens by means of Authorization header. This has to be ‘Basic {EncodedCredentials}’, of which {EncodedCredentials} has to be the Base64-encoding of ‘{clientUser}:{clientPassword}’

Request Information

URI Parameters

None.

Body Parameters

None.

Response Information

Resource Description

AccessToken

Name	Description	Type	Additional information
Token	The actual access token	string	None.
Type	The type of access token. This will always be "Bearer"	string	None.
ExpiresIn	The time in seconds this token will be valid	integer	None.
ExpiresAt	The token expiration date and hour	date	None.

Response Formats

application/json, text/json

Sample:

{
  "Token": "sample string 1",
  "Type": "sample string 2",
  "ExpiresIn": 3,
  "ExpiresAt": "2025-10-29T12:28:13.0748538+01:00"
}

application/xml, text/xml

Sample:

<AuthenticationController.AccessToken xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/DocFlowImportServiceInportal.Controllers">
  <ExpiresAt>2025-10-29T12:28:13.0748538+01:00</ExpiresAt>
  <ExpiresIn>3</ExpiresIn>
  <Token>sample string 1</Token>
  <Type>sample string 2</Type>
</AuthenticationController.AccessToken>