How to get and use authentication token for JHipster Microservice JWT

Question

I created a JHipster microservice App with JWT authentication (I only have the "backend", no Angular GUI).

In my application-dev.yml, I have the following lines:

jhipster:
    security:
      authentication:
        jwt:
            secret: password
            # Token is valid 24 hours
            token-validity-in-seconds: 86400
            token-validity-in-seconds-for-remember-me: 2592000

How can I access the API with a client like "Restlet" (Google Chrome extension).

I read something about getting the token when accessing /api/authenticate but it didn't work (JHipster authentication using Postman and JWT)

Where can I retrieve the JWT Token and how to use it in subsequent requests?

Answer 1

You've chosen a microservices architecture: so now you need a registry and a gateway( read the doc).

You get a token by authenticating against the gateway then you use this token by passing it on each request with Authorization http header.