Basic Authentication

Setup credentials following the instructions on Configuration. When you have obtained a client_id and a client_secret you can try out OAuth 2.0 resapi/1.0/common/basic the flow goes as follows to get authorized:

Note

This authentication process supported for Odoo version 15 and later version.

OAuth endpoints:

1. POST {your_Odoo_server_url}/restapi/1.0/common/basic/access_token (Token Credentials Request endpoint)

1. Token Credentials Request

Fetch an access token from the Odoo using the authorization code obtained during user authorization.

POST /restapi/1.0/common/basic/access_token

Request:

POST /restapi/1.0/common/basic/access_token HTTP/1.1
Host: {your_Odoo_server_url}
Authorization: OAuth client_id='uwCrAHAQbL7D9cvJLIztNaZ0bziEGMDh',
                     client_secret='FtHzOQVEs0aSEL9AXuIe9k7X6E2MekU7',

Response:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK

{
  'access_token': 'eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJSUzI1NiIsIn',
  'token_type': 'basic',
  'access_token_validity': '7/20/2017 12:00:05',
  'refresh_token': 'ZXIiLCJnaXZlbl9uYW1lIjoiRnJhbmsifQ'
}

Query Parameters:

• client_id – Odoo consumer key

• client_secret – Odoo consumer secret

Headers and Status Codes	Description
Request Headers	Accept – the response content type depends on Accept header Authorization – The OAuth protocol parameters to authenticate.
Response Headers	Content-Type – this depends on Accept header of the request
Status Codes	200 OK – no error 404 Not Found – there’s no resource 401 Unauthorized – authentication failed