Authentication
How to authenticate to our API.
Getting Super Powers
To start using the API you need 3 main things:
Email address for the vendor
The password vendor
JWT (JSON Web Token) Key
Using the email & password to generate the JWT Key, by calling the Authorization method. It will return a lot of JSON formatted data, for now we just need the JWT Key, which looks something like this:
You guessed it, the key that we need is in line #4 called "access_token". This key will be used in most of our API calls.
Also please note the "expires_in" parameters are returned in the JSON response, this indicates when does the JWT Key expires and needs to be regenerated. In the response above the token expires in 2 months.
Once you got it all, look at this:
This method call above is to test the creation of a customer on your own store, just to validate that the authorization process is completed successfully.
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