Use Bearer token in Credential for REST Integration

[Rashi Kulshresh]

Hi , 

I am doing a REST Integration using flow designer. For Authentication, I am using bearer token, which needs to be send in Authorization header. But Instead of directly putting the token in Authorization header, I want to use Credential Alias. But I am not able to find suitable credential type to put Bearer token. I cant use Oauth type credential as I don't have client Id and Client Secret. I have direct generated token. 

I tried API key credential but in runtime its not picking the Authorization header automatically . And failing with error "Error: U,Detail: Unexpected token: U" . 

@Ankur Bawiskar @Chuck Tomasi @Brad Tilton Please help.

Thanks.

[Niclas]

You first need to select the Connection Alias in the REST Step (in your Screenshot it's empty). Only then the Credential Variable will become available in the REST Step.

[olivierneveu]

There is another solution

like Niklas but I still use the credential alias

you add a get connection info step, the credential is a API KEY type.

then you use the cred value in the rest step

[Ravi Kand]

Hi,

POST Method.

While testing through REST Messages, I am getting the below error.

Request not sent to uri= https://xxx-itso-api/api/qs/oa2/v1/ : java.net.UnknownHostException: xxx-itso-api

Please help. Thank you.

[franciscoco]

Hi. This is an old post, but after creating a ticket with ServiceNow support for the exact same issue, I was given a secure workaround.

1. Create a system property type password2 to store the bearer token
2. Add a Script Step inside the action that contains the REST step.
Retrieve the token from the system property and expose it as an output with name "password" or "token" like so:

outputs.token = gs.getProperty('x_yourapp.bearer_token') || '';

3. Set up the rest step:
Define Connection inline
Base url + resource path
Configure the Authorization header like so: