Call REST Webservice with HTTP Basic Authentication from X++

Calling a web service with HTTP Basic Authentication is easy in C#. Here I’m using a REST service via HTTP GET which is secured via Basic Authentication.

C# Code

A HTTP GET webservice call using System.Net.WebRequest and System.Net.Webrespose in C#

string url = “http://yourhost.net/service”;
string user = “YourUserName”;
string pass = “YourPassWord”;

byte[] bytes = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(user+”:”+ pass);
string base64  = System.Convert.ToBase64String(bytes);

WebRequest request = WebRequest.Create(url);
request.Headers.Add(“Authorization”, “Basic “+base64);
WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
string wsResponse = new StreamReader(response.GetResponseStream())
.ReadToEnd();

Console.WriteLine(wsResponse);
Console.ReadKey();

X++ Code

Since Dynamics 365 FO does not support packages and some syntactic sugar from C# the code is more wordy.

str url = “http://yourhost.net/service”;
str user = “YourUserName”;
str pass = “YourPassword”;

System.Text.Encoding encoding = System.Text.Encoding::UTF8;
System.Byte[] bytes = encoding.GetBytes(user + “:” + pass);
System.String base64 = System.Convert::ToBase64String(bytes);

System.String headerKey = “Authorization”;
System.String headerValue = “Basic ” + base64;
System.Net.WebRequest request = System.Net.WebRequest::Create(url);       
System.Net.WebHeaderCollection headers = request.Headers;
headers.Add(headerKey,headerValue);

System.Net.WebResponse response = request.GetResponse();
System.IO.StreamReader reader = new System.IO.StreamReader(
response.GetResponseStream());
str wsResponse = reader.ReadToEnd();

info(wsResponse);