Hardcoding Username and Password into AuthenticationView

KyleSchultz — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:12:53 GMT

I have this

    AuthenticationView {

        anchors.fill: parent

        authenticationManager: AuthenticationManager

I would like to declare a username and password for a map service without the need of asking the user for a password.

I tried declaring credentials:

'{"username": "user","password": "pass"}'

but that failed as well...I can't find any documentation on how exactly authenticationManager operates.

 authenticationManager: AuthenticationManager

Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Hardcoding Username and Password into AuthenticationView

KyleSchultz — Sun, 12 Dec 2021 17:02:14 GMT

So since no one has answered this question I found a backwards work around for it.

The directory

C:\Users\<username>\Applications\ArcGIS\AppStudio\bin\qml\Esri\ArcGISRuntime\Toolkit

contains files, AuthenticationView.qml and AuthenticationView20.qml

in both of these files I changed the lines(they are very the same)

 if (Number(challenge.authenticationChallengeType) === 1) {

    // ArcGIS token, HTTP Basic/Digest, IWA

               createView("UserCredentialsView.qml");

            } else if (Number(challenge.authenticationChallengeType) === 2) {

                // OAuth 2

                createView("OAuth2View.qml");

            } else if (Number(challenge.authenticationChallengeType) === 3) {

                // Client Certificate

                createView("ClientCertificateView.qml");

            } else if (Number(challenge.authenticationChallengeType) === 4) {

                // SSL Handshake - Self-signed certificate

                createView("SslHandshakeView.qml");

I changed the first if statement to(making sure to remove createView() or comment it out.)

 if (Number(challenge.authenticationChallengeType) === 1) {

     if (challenge)

                    challenge.continueWithUsernamePassword('username', 'password');

                // ArcGIS token, HTTP Basic/Digest, IWA

                //createView("UserCredentialsView.qml");

}

Now to make sure you project gets built in with it copy the directory

C:\Users\<username>\Applications\ArcGIS\AppStudio\bin\qml\Esri\ArcGISRuntime\Toolkit

to the project root of your folder and then call

import "ArcGISRuntime/Toolkit/Dialogs" 

within your qml file

and the finally invoke as you would

    AuthenticationView {

        anchors.fill: parent

        authenticationManager: AuthenticationManager // set the authenticationManager property

which will call everything with a hard coded username and password.

This is kind of a backwards way of doing it. If anyone has a cleaner solution I'd much appreciate it.

The documentation for qml and for AuthenticationManager is poor.

Re: Hardcoding Username and Password into AuthenticationView

GeneVaatveit — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 20:25:23 GMT

Did you ever find a better way of doing this?

It seems AuthenticationView.qml has been updated in Toolkit and is no longer compatible with your solution. However I did find the right version in the Token Authentication sample.

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