Outbound REST web service call using oAuth

[dmolnar]

//authentication type ='basic'/ 'oauth2'

//This line below is optional if you have configured OAuth as authentication type in your outbound REST

r.setAuthentication('oauth2', 'OAuth_Client1');

What is OAuth_Client1 referring to?  

I have tried the OAuth Profile name and  oauth_entity name, never worked.

Does anyone know?

[dmolnar · Accepted solution]

This is useful thank everyone. But I was looking for the syntax and how to use it. What I found was the UI Action - "Preview Script". But I did not realize this is no longer used in Geneva+. This was to override the security profile setup in the REST method. The issue is in Geneva (maybe Fuji) and above, this is not used anymore. But I found the answer, was hard to find. Here it is:

Old way:

//override authentication profile

//authentication type ='basic'/ 'oauth2'

//r.setAuthentication(authentication type, profile name);

r.setAuthentication('oauth2', 'OAuth_Client1');

New way:

The new syntax is RESTMessageV2 - setAuthenticationProfile(String type, String profileId)

You can find the details here: RESTMessageV2 - setAuthenticationProfile(String type, String profileId)

Name	Type	Description
type	String	The type of authentication profile to use. Valid values are 'basic' to use basic authentication, or 'oauth2' to use OAuth 2.0.
profileId	String	The sys_id of an authentication profile record. When using basic auth, specify the sys_id of a Basic Auth Configuration [sys_auth_profile_basic] record. When using OAuth 2.0, specify the sys_id of a OAuth Entity Profile [oauth_entity_profile] record.

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