topic Re: REST connection in QlikView

REST connection

raja1 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 21:26:37 GMT

Hi,

I am using Qlikview version 12. I need to do a two way authentication using REST connection. Meaning first time I need to call using REST connection to get a token. Then second time I need to pass the token by using REST connection to get the data.

I was not able to get a good examples to follow thru. For the first connection I tried different ways using REST but no luck. But I tried with "Curl" as below to get a token and it is working:

curl https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/token -d
"
client_id=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
&grant_type=xxxxxxxxx
&resource=xxxxxxxxx
&username=xxxxxxxx
&password=xxxxx
"

I tried to take this curl command and populate it into REST connection but no luck.

I really appreciate if anyone can help and point me in the right direction.

Thanks

Re: REST connection

Maria_Halley — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 07:27:28 GMT

@raja1

Have you read all the instructions in the help?

There are a lot of information that you will need to set this up.

Re: REST connection

Raja2022 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 08:59:02 GMT

Maria,

I did looked into the instructions in the help but not able to get it work. Looking for some real sample code to give a try.

Thanks

Re: REST connection

Raja2022 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 10:25:03 GMT

Maria,

To add to my above reply, I just came to know from my server group saying this cannot be done in Qlikview ? Personally I think that is not true but if they are true then I need to look for an alternate tool.

All I want to achieve is:

1) Call a REST connection to get a token

2) Make a second call with REST connection by passing the above token to get the data

Please let me know if this can be done in Qlikview or not. If this can be done please share a few sample apps or code so that I can try it.

Thank you

Re: REST connection

NadiaB — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 18:46:24 GMT

Hi @Raja2022 @raja1

By any chance have you seen this already ?

Handling Refresh Tokens with the Qlik REST Connector

https://community.qlik.com/t5/Qlik-Sense-Documents/Handling-Refresh-Tokens-with-the-Qlik-REST-Connector/ta-p/1492836

Hope it helps, don't forget to mark this post as "Accepted Solution" if it helps you to resolve the problem.

Re: REST connection

raja1 — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 19:06:29 GMT

Nadia,

I went thru the link few weeks back and no luck so far. Does this concept of getting token and then passing the token to the REST connection will work in Qlikview ?

Thanks

Re: REST connection

NadiaB — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 15:42:01 GMT

Hi @raja1

By any chance did you follow all the steps in the PDF? The rest connector can be also installed for Qlikview and the approach should be as the document describes.

Could you indicate at what step of the document you found a problem or error?
Kind regards.

Re: REST connection

raja1 — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 11:19:39 GMT

Thanks for the follow up...

The problem is in the first screen itself where I am passing the Query parameters using REST connection and it fails. But if I use the same parameters with "curl" command it works without any issues.

All I want to achieve is:

1) Call a REST connection to get a token

2) Make a second call with REST connection by passing the above token to get the data

I would like to know if making two REST calls work in Qlikview ?

Thanks