Authentication handling in javascript
var token_ // variable will store the token
var userName = "clientID"; // app clientID
var passWord = "secretKey"; // app clientSecret
var caspioTokenUrl = "https://xxx123.caspio.com/oauth/token"; // Your application token endpoint
var request = new XMLHttpRequest();
function getToken(url, clientID, clientSecret) {
var key;
request.open("POST", url, true);
request.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/json");
request.send("grant_type=client_credentials&client_id="+clientID+"&"+"client_secret="+clientSecret); // specify the credentials to receive the token on request
request.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (request.readyState == request.DONE) {
var response = request.responseText;
var obj = JSON.parse(response);
key = obj.access_token; //store the value of the accesstoken
token_ = key; // store token in your global variable "token_" or you could simply return the value of the access token from the function
}
}
}
// Get the token
getToken(caspioTokenUrl, userName, passWord);