JHipster authentication using Postman and JWT

Question

I'd been using the Postman in-tab extension to tests calls to call JHipster resource API's and found that it worked great (JHipster setup to use OAuth2). I authenticated using the JHipster login page, then opened up a new tab with the Postman extension.

I just switched my JHipster application to use JWT and this method of using Postman no longer works, I get permission denied when calling the API. Moreover, the in-tab extension for Postman is being deprecated in favor of the stand-alone app.

Question: Is there any documentation on setting up Postman for authenticating against JHipster/JWT?

Answer 1

1. Make a POST request to /api/authenticate with the following body: {"password":"admin","username":"admin"}. You will receive the following response: {"id_token":"aabbccddeeff"}
2. Make your subsequent requests using the value of the token received in the previous call and put in into an Authorization: Bearer aabbccddeeff
3. You can check the status of the authentication, making a GET request to /api/authenticate endpoint