Crowd scripting synchronization

Question

Does anyone have a solution for being able to synchronize directories in crowd prgrammatically? It can be over HTML, on the commandline in BASH, anything. We need to have a sync called immediately as part of an integrated workstream and a delay waiting for a scheduled/regular sync is not acceptable.

Richard Heasman_zk35hw · Answer

Thanks Guarav - yes I know it points at JIRA, I found another post to indicate this was the way to go.. Ok then - following your guidance, I've tried this:

curl -X GET -u "adminUsr:adminPW" --silent --output /dev/null -c - 'https://CrowdURL/crowd/console/secure/directory/synchconnectorcache' --insecure

response:
# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curl.haxx.se/docs/http-cookies.html
# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

#HttpOnly_DOMAIN.COM FALSE /crowd FALSE 0 JSESSIONID JSESSVALUE

curl -X POST -H "Accept: application/json" -b 'JSESSIONID=$JSESSVALUE 'https://CrowdURL/crowd/console/secure/directory/synchconnectorcache!execute.action?ID=6553602&atl_token=$JSESSVALUE' -vvv --insecure

Still nothing.

I accept I'm a little green in the web transfer area - would you be able to give me an example?

Gaurav_x61rsc · Answer

Hi @Richard Heasman ,

One problem, that I can spot right away is that you are logging in to Jira, but using the JSESSIONID, and AXTOKENVALUE of Jira in Crowd.

It will not work, Crowd is a separate web application, you can use the CTOKENVALUE given by Jira to login to Crowd, but you would need to get the HTML page of directory view in Crowd, and then capture the XSRF token and JSESSIONID from this page's cookies header, and then use it in the final call you are making.

Thanks,

Gaurav

Richard Heasman_zk35hw · Answer

curl -X GET -u "adminUsr:adminPW" --silent --output /dev/null -c - 'https://jiraURL.com/login' --insecure

Output is:

# Netscape HTTP Cookie File
# http://curl.haxx.se/docs/http-cookies.html
# This file was generated by libcurl! Edit at your own risk.

#HttpOnly_domain.com FALSE /jira FALSE 0 JSESSIONID JSESSVALUE
#HttpOnly_.domain.com TRUE / FALSE 0 crowd.token_key CTOKENVALUE
domain.com FALSE /jira FALSE 0 atlassian.xsrf.token AXTOKENVALUE

Then using those values:

curl -X POST -H "Accept: application/json" -b 'JSESSIONID=$JSESSVALUE;crowd.token_key=$CTOKENVALUE;atlassian.xsrf.token=$AXTOKENVALUE' 'https://crowdURL.com/crowd/console/secure/directory/synchconnectorcache!execute.action?ID=6553602&atl_token=$CTOKENVALUE' --insecure