E10 Web Service License for oData Calls

Epicor ERP 10
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I’m using php’s file_get_contents(“https://apache:password@server/epicorlive10/api/v1/BaqSvc/CompanyBAQ\”) to list data from a BAQ into my webpage.

The problem is that it consumes a standard user license each time the call is made. We bought some Web Service licenses, and I can’t figure out where to apply the change to have REST services use those licenses instead.

I’ve googled around, and it looks like this is a server level change in Vantage 9, but I can’t find related E10 information. The technical reference guide for 10.2.400 isn’t clear from what I’ve seen.

Does anyone have any thoughts on how I might accomplish this?

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You should send special header with your request. It is called License Header, check REST docs

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See also this thread and its link.

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Do you know if this is done through the CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER if I’m using PHP/CURL? Kind of the way I’m submitting my second company through the CallSettings in the same header?

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Yes, similar to how you send CallSettings. Just another header.
How do you send CallSettings now?

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I throw it into a variable array I call $headers

	$headers = array('Content-Type: application/json'
				    ,'CallSettings: {"Company": "'.$epicor_company.'"}');

Then I use the CURL Set Option to pass that array into CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER:

    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

I tried building this into the HTTPHEADER, but I just couldn’t get any valid responses:

'License: {"ClaimedLicense": "00000003-9439-4B30-A6F4-6D2FD4B9FD0F"}'

How might you go about it? Thanks for your insight!

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Searching this site with “curl REST header” returns this as one of the results:

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Thanks Mark. That’s the result that ultimately pointed me to the CallSettings to switch companies within my web service. However, I’m trying to figure out which header/syntax to use to send in the License Selection to grab our Web Service licenses.

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Can you post your whole Headers code?

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$headers = array('Content-Type: application/json'
				,'CallSettings: {"Company": "'.$epicor_company.'"}'
				,'License: {ClaimedLicense: "00000003-9439-4B30-A6F4-6D2FD4B9FD0F"}'
				);

Well, I just tried the header above and it looks like it actually worked. I can’t refresh the Admin console fast enough to see that a WebService license was used, but I could run a trace to verify it.

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You could use the SessionModSvc to get the same list of active sessions through REST instead of the Admin Console.

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I will look into that, thank you!

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I got it working both with CURL and file_get_contents. For anyone looking for php breadcrumbs in the future, here are some working examples:

(Where “00000003-9439-4B30-A6F4-6D2FD4B9FD0F” is the specific GUID for Web Service Licenses)

CURL Headers:

$headers = array('Content-Type: application/json'
				,'CallSettings: {"Company": "'.$epicor_company.'"}'
				,'License: {"ClaimedLicense": "00000003-9439-4B30-A6F4-6D2FD4B9FD0F"}'
				);//GUID is for WebService License

$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_URL, $epicorURL);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, 'PATCH');
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $epicorJSON);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $headers);

file_get_contents headers:

  $opts = array(
  	"http" => array(
  	
  		"method" => "GET",
  		"header" => "Accept-language: en\r\n"
  				  . "License: {\"ClaimedLicense\": \"00000003-9439-4B30-A6F4-6D2FD4B9FD0F\"}\r\n"
  	)
  
  );
  
  $context = stream_context_create($opts);
  $response = json_decode(file_get_contents($oDataURL, false, $context), true);
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