Using Developer Tools
There are multiple developer tool IDEs such as Insomnia, Postman, and Altair. Here are examples using Insomnia and Postman.
Insomnia is an API request IDE and a remote.it plugin is available to assist with authentication to allow you to experiment before you develop code.
For graphQL, you can explore the schema, generate queries and mutations.
For the REST-API, you can create http requests.
We have developed an example set of GraphQL queries and mutations in a collection that you can import directly into insomnia to get started. You will still need to install the authentication plug-in here and create your access keys in your account before getting started.
$ git clone https://github.com/remoteit/code_samples.git
It is recommended that you install Insomnia Core rather than Insomnia Designer, but the plugin should work for both versions.
We will be using a remote.it provided plugin to create queries which will automatically sign the requests.
Go to preferences:
Enter insomnia-plugin-remoteit and click Install Plugin
Make sure to create a POST request and select GraphQL Query as Body type. NOTE: All graphQL queries and mutations are made with POST
{
login {
email
}
}
Select the Auth tab of the query and select Bearer Token authentication.
Click on theToken field and
CTRL+Spaceto select the remote.it API authentication tag, and select a specific profile otherwise the default profile will be used. 
You now can send the request and execute the query using the credentials stored earlier.
If you want to start using the API requests in your code, you cannot use the generated code out of Insomnia as the generated signature is only good for that specific request. You will need to use the http request signing methodology. Some examples can be found on the authentication page.
Postman
These instructions have been written using Version 9.0.5
You can quickly change postman environments for any request. All our required keys and headers will be stored here. Add and Save the values retrieved from your credentials file.
R3_ACCESS_KEY_ID
R3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY
R3_DEVELOPER_API_KEY
Make sure to create a POST request and select Raw or GraphQL as the body type. NOTE: All graphQL queries and mutations are made with POST
Add the Pre-Request Script below to generate the needed environment variables for each request. This MUST be run prior to every request.
//Sign with Remote.it Http-Signature
const urlTool = require('url')
function computeHttpSignature(config, headerHash) {
let sig = 'Signature keyId="${keyId}",algorithm="${algorithm}",headers="${headers}",signature="${signature}"'
// compute sig here
let signingBase = ''
config.headers.forEach(function(h){
if (signingBase !== '') { signingBase += '\n' }
signingBase += h.toLowerCase() + ": " + headerHash[h]
})
const hashf = (function() {
switch (config.algorithm) {
case 'hmac-sha1': return CryptoJS.HmacSHA1
case 'hmac-sha256': return CryptoJS.HmacSHA256
case 'hmac-sha512': return CryptoJS.HmacSHA512
default : return null
}
}())
const hash = hashf(signingBase, config.secretkey)
const signatureOptions = {
keyId : config.keyId,
algorithm: config.algorithm,
headers: config.headers,
signature : CryptoJS.enc.Base64.stringify(hash)
}
// build sig string here
Object.keys(signatureOptions).forEach(function(key) {
var pattern = "${" + key + "}",
value = (typeof signatureOptions[key] != 'string') ? signatureOptions[key].join(' ') : signatureOptions[key]
sig = sig.replace(pattern, value)
})
return sig
}
//postman version 9.0.5 doesn't allow you get length of the body in all cases. Its dependent on the body 'mode' and computed at send request
function computeContentLength(mode, body){
switch (mode) {
case 'raw': {
if (body.raw == undefined) {
return 0
} else {
return Buffer.byteLength(body.raw)
}
}
case 'graphql': return Buffer.byteLength(getModifiedBody(body.graphql))
default : return 0
}
}
function getModifiedBody(body) {
let modifiedBody = {}
Object.keys(body).forEach(function (h) {
if (body[h] !== "" && body[h] !== 'undefined') modifiedBody[h]= body[h]
})
const modifiedBodyString = JSON.stringify(modifiedBody)
return modifiedBodyString
}
function replaceVariables(content) {
while(content.indexOf('{{') >= 0) {
const variableName = content.substring(content.indexOf('{{')+2, content.indexOf('}}'))
const variableValue= pm.environment.get(variableName) || pm.globals.get(variableName)
content = content.replace('{{'+variableName+'}}', variableValue)
}
return content
}
const url = replaceVariables(request.url)
const { hostname } = urlTool.parse(url)
const accessKey = pm.environment.get('R3_ACCESS_KEY_ID') || pm.globals.get('R3_ACCESS_KEY_ID')
const accessKeySecretPreParse = pm.environment.get("R3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY") || pm.globals.get("R3_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY")
const accessKeySecret = CryptoJS.enc.Base64.parse(accessKeySecretPreParse)
const curDate = new Date().toGMTString()
const targetUrl = url.trim().replace(new RegExp('^https?://[^/]+/'),'/') // strip hostname
const method = request.method.toLowerCase()
const contentLength = computeContentLength(pm.request.body.mode, pm.request.body)
const contentType = 'application/json'
const headerHash = {
date : curDate,
'(request-target)' : method + ' ' + targetUrl,
'host' : hostname,
'content-type': contentType,
'content-length' : contentLength
}
const config = {
algorithm : 'hmac-sha256',
keyId : accessKey,
secretkey : accessKeySecret,
headers : [ '(request-target)', 'host','date', 'content-type', 'content-length' ]
}
const sig = computeHttpSignature(config, headerHash)
pm.request.headers.add({key: 'Authorization', value: sig})
pm.request.headers.add({key: 'Date', value: curDate})
pm.request.headers.add({key: 'content-length', value: contentLength})
pm.request.headers.add({key: 'content-type', value: contentType})
pm.request.headers.add({key: 'developerkey', value: '{{R3_DEVELOPER_API_KEY}}' })
GraphQL
REST
Last modified 10mo ago