Basic authentication for REST API using spring restTemplate

Question

I am completely new in RestTemplate and basically in the REST APIs also. I want to retrieve some data in my application via Jira REST API, but getting back 401 Unauthorised.

Answer 1

Use setBasicAuth to define credentials

HttpHeaders headers = new HttpHeaders();
headers.setBasicAuth("myUsername", myPassword);

Then create the request like you prefer.

Example:

HttpEntity request = new HttpEntity(headers);
ResponseEntity response = restTemplate.exchange(url, HttpMethod.GET, 
request, String.class);
String body = response.getBody();