Authentication

The API cannot be accessed without one of these two forms of authentication:

Personal access token

Use cases

For customers that want to automate the submission/consumption of their own simulations.

Usage

Each PAT is connected to a user account and can expire/be revoked.

Once you get the token, you can access the API using it in an HTTP header like this:

x-nablaflow-token: ${token}

Example

export NABLAFLOW_TOKEN="..."

curl \
  -H "x-nablaflow-token: ${NABLAFLOW_TOKEN}" \
  https://api.nablaflow.io/aerocloud/users/self

OAuth2 application

Use cases

For third-party services that want to give the ability to their customers to submit simulations/consume results.
For example, an application that does 3D modeling and can submit and then visualise results inline.

Usage

When a client accesses the API, it does so on behalf of an existing user.
In order to do that, a classical OAuth 2.0 token request flow must be performed.

Please get yourself familiar with OAuth 2.0 before continuing.

Once you have performed the token request, you will get back an access_token and a refresh_token.

An access_token needs to be used in each HTTP call’s headers:

authorization: bearer ${access_token}

Access tokens are valid for 1 hour, while refresh tokens are valid for 30 days.

Example

export ACCESS_TOKEN="..."

curl \
  -H "authorization: bearer ${ACCESS_TOKEN}" \
  https://api.nablaflow.io/aerocloud/users/self