jQuery Example to Generate an Access Token

Modified on Thu, 14 Sep 2023 at 02:52 PM

You can generate a token suitable for supply queries by making a POST request to the Nexar identity server. There are a number of examples in our public GitHub samples (and a cURL example), but here is a snippet of jQuery code you can utilise on front-end applications.

var settings = {
  "url": "https://identity.nexar.com/connect/token",
  "method": "POST",
  "timeout": 0,
  "headers": {
    "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
  },
  "data": {
    "client_id": "<your_client_id>",
    "client_secret": "<your_client_secret>",
    "grant_type": "client_credentials"
  }
};

$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});

The response should be similar to the following:

The response should be similar to this:
{
    "access_token": "<your_access_token>",
    "expires_in": 86400,
    "token_type": "Bearer",
    "scope": "supply.domain"
}

Warning : For performance reasons and to reduce the pressure on our identity service, please cache the access token (valid by default for up to 24 hours) rather than generate a new token for every query.

Be sure to replace the <your_client_id> and <your_client_secret> fields with your Nexar application client information.