Liferay JSON Web services Authenticated Access required

Whenever we are calling Liferay JSON web services we can find Authenticated Access required.
Even we send user name password still we can see the above exception. Generally this kind of exception we can when use apache http client to call Liferay JSON web services.

Generally this exception will encounter due to following reasons
  1. If the Liferay Web services not enable to Guest user Access
  2. When permission checker object is Null
  3. When users not sign in the permission checker  

The following is Liferay portal java class you can find the code



public class AuthenticatedAccessControlPolicy extends BaseAccessControlPolicy {

            @Override
            public void onServiceRemoteAccess(
                                    Method method, Object[] arguments,
                                    AccessControlled accessControlled)
                        throws SecurityException {

                        PermissionChecker permissionChecker =
                                    PermissionThreadLocal.getPermissionChecker();

                        if (!accessControlled.guestAccessEnabled() &&
                                    ((permissionChecker == null) || !permissionChecker.isSignedIn())) {

                                    throw new SecurityException("Authenticated access required");
                        }
            }

}

Even we use Admin User Name and Credentials to access these web services we can see Authenticated Access required.

Solution:

We need to use BasicAuthorization heard in the URL request so that we can successfully call the Liferay JSON web services.

We need to set header to httpPost or HttpGetRequest so that we can call these web services. When we set Authorization header basic then we need to encode credentials with Base64 encoding format

Example:


Base64 b = new Base64();
String encoding = b.encodeAsString(new String("test@liferay.com:test").getBytes());


Set Basic Authorization header to Http Post/Http Get request as follows


HttpPost post = new HttpPost("/LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet/api/jsonws/employee/get-employee");
Base64 b = new Base64();
String encoding = b.encodeAsString(new String("test@liferay.com:test").getBytes());
post.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);


Consume Liferay Plugin Portlet JSON web services Http Client


package com.meera.liferay;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.HashMap;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.message.BasicNameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;
public class LiferayWebserviceClient {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws ClientProtocolException,
     IOException {
     ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>> mylist = new ArrayList<HashMap<String, String>>();
     HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("localhost", 8080, "http");
     DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
     BasicHttpContext ctx = new BasicHttpContext();
     // Plugin Context Use for Liferay 6.1
     HttpPost post = new HttpPost("/LiferayJSONWebservices-portlet/api/jsonws/employee/get-employee");
     Base64 b = new Base64();
     String encoding = b.encodeAsString(new String("test@liferay.com:test").getBytes());
     post.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
     List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
     params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("emplyeeId", "30722"));
     UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, "UTF-8");
     post.setEntity(entity);
     HttpResponse resp = httpclient.execute(targetHost, post, ctx);
     resp.getEntity().writeTo(System.out);
     httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();
     }

}

Consume Liferay Portal Services Using Http Client

package com.meera.liferay;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;
import org.apache.commons.codec.binary.Base64;
import org.apache.http.HttpHost;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;

import org.apache.http.NameValuePair;
import org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException;
import org.apache.http.client.entity.UrlEncodedFormEntity;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpPost;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.DefaultHttpClient;
import org.apache.http.protocol.BasicHttpContext;
public class LiferayWebserviceClient {
     public static void main(String[] args) throws ClientProtocolException, IOException {
           HttpHost targetHost = new HttpHost("localhost", 8080, "http");
           DefaultHttpClient httpclient = new DefaultHttpClient();
           BasicHttpContext ctx = new BasicHttpContext();
           // Plugin Context Use for Liferay 6.1
           HttpPost post = new HttpPost("/api/jsonws/country/get-countries");
           Base64 b = new Base64();
        String encoding = b.encodeAsString(new String("test@liferay.com:test").getBytes());
        post.setHeader("Authorization", "Basic " + encoding);
           List<NameValuePair> params = new ArrayList<NameValuePair>();
           //params.add(new BasicNameValuePair("emplyeeId", "30722"));
           UrlEncodedFormEntity entity = new UrlEncodedFormEntity(params, "UTF-8");
           post.setEntity(entity);
           HttpResponse resp = httpclient.execute(targetHost, post, ctx);
           resp.getEntity().writeTo(System.out);
           httpclient.getConnectionManager().shutdown();

     }

}

Required Jar Files


commons-codec.jar
httpclient.jar
httpcore.jar
commons-logging.jar


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