Access RESTApi from inside ServiceNow Script

[Ankit Bansal]

Hello,

I am trying to access CMDB using ServiceNow given RESTApi from Script include.
Password i can read of current user using below code

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var usr = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
var tmp = usr.get(gs.getUserID());
gs.info("Password outside: {0}", usr.user_password);
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But its 1 way Encrypted password so we can't decrypted . and when we use in REST APi call

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var request = new sn_ws.RESTMessageV2();
request.setEndpoint('https://<InstanceName>.service-now.com/api/now/table/<tableName>');
request.setHttpMethod('POST');
var user = gs.getUserName();
var password = usr.user_password;
request.setBasicAuth(user,password);
request.setRequestHeader("Accept","application/json");
request.setRequestHeader('Content-Type','application/json');
request.setRequestBody(<JSON>);
var response = request.execute();
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Is there any way to authenticate current user and get password?  

[Chris M3]

Now, I'm not sure if this will work, because I can't think of any reason why you would want to make an API call from the server side when you can just do a GlideRecord query, but I did something similar from the Client Side using the Users Token.

So, on the Client side, I have this:

headers: {
   'X-UserToken' : window.g_ck
}

On the server side, something like this may work... (Skip your username/password lines all together)

var session = gs.getSession();
var token = session.getSessionToken();
sm.setRequestHeader('X-UserToken', token);

It's just a guess.  I would really question the requirement that the call from your script include needs to go through the REST API, instead of a simple GlideRecord.

[Ankit Bansal]

I agree that we can also use directly GlideRecord to insert data in REST but since data to ServiceNow is in json so preferred existing ServiceNow REST API