Generate a JWT token

Authentication mechanism

With machine-to-machine (M2M) applications such as CLIs, daemons, or services running on your back-end, the system authenticates and authorizes the app rather than a user. In this scenario, typical authentication schemes like username + password or social logins don't make sense. Instead, machine-to-machine apps use the Client Credentials Flow (defined in OAuth 2.0 RFC 6749, section 4.4), in which they pass along their Client IDs and Client Secrets to authenticate themselves and get a token.

1. Your app authenticates with the Stent Authorization Server using its Client ID and Client Secret (/connect/token endpoint).

2. The Stent Authorization Server validates the Client ID and Client Secret.

3. The Stent Authorization Server responds with an Access Token.

4. Your application can use the Access Token to call the Stent GraphQL API on behalf of itself.

5. The GraphQL API responds with requested data.

Generate a JWT token

The HTTP request below allows you to generate a valid JWT authentication token that you can use to access the GraphQL API's schema and data.

A JWT token is valid 30 days after being issued.

Get your credentials

Get your Client ID and Client Secret from the Setting > API section of your workspace.

Get your credentials

Generate a JWT token

POST https://auth.stent.io/connect/token

Make sure to replace the values of the client_id and client_secret parameters with your own credentials.

Headers

Name	Type	Description
Content-Type	string	application/x-www-form-urlencoded

Request Body

Name	Type	Description
grant_type	string	client_credentials
response_type	string	token
client_id	string	Your Client ID
client_secret	string	Your Client Secret

200

{
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "access_token": "<Your JWT access token>",
    "expires_in": 2592000
}

Curl command

curl --request POST 'https://auth.stent.io/connect/token' \
    --header 'Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded' \
    --data-urlencode 'grant_type=client_credentials' \
    --data-urlencode 'response_type=token' \
    --data-urlencode 'client_id=<Your Client ID>' \
    --data-urlencode 'client_secret=<Your Client Secret>'