Login
Launch Postman and specify a target URL of: http://127.0.0.1:8080/usr/login making sure to select the http POST method. Maintain the request body to provide a user-id and password as shown in the following JSON snippet. Typically the user-id for a Jiffy application is an email address, but we make an exception for the default administration user.
{
"email": "admin",
"password": "initpass"
}
When you have finished and your Postman (or other test utility) looks like the following image, click the ‘Send’ button to post your login request to the running application.
If all goes well, you will get a http response code of 200 (status ok), and a block of JSON with a single ‘token’ tag containing a jumble of letters and numbers. This is the JSON Web Token (JWT) that will be used to validate our authorization to access the Person entity’s service end-points. If you want to read more about JWTs, jwt.io is a good place to start, or you can refer to the Access Control section of this document set.
