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Storing bearer token in a variable to re-use

Hi,

I am trying to store a bearer token (obtained from a POST request to management.azure.com) for use in subsequent GET calls to the same API. I'm running into a problem though, I can successfully get the token and store it in a variable called 'access_token'. However, when I try and reference that variable from the other poller, it doesn't seem to want to pull the variable back and I continually get an 'InvalidAuthenticationToken' error.

My auth header looks like the below:

But that never works. If I manually add the live bearer token in place of $.['access_token'], the request works. My thought was that because the token is so long, is there a character limit being hit with the stored variable? If not, why am I not able to reference the token with that name?

Any help greatly appreciated as I have a number of things i'd like to monitor via API pollers.

Thanks,

Simon

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mulambo

If you are using the token from the previous step you need to store it as a variable and then use it with the format ${your_variable}

-SGregory-

Thanks for your reply. I get what you're saying but, referencing the token as you suggest:

Gives me this error:

This would suggest it is being stored, right?:

What am I doing wrong?

mulambo

You are going on the right direction. Do you have 2 different steps for the API poller? You may need to run the first step and make sure the variable has a value on it, then it will use it on the 2nd step.

Sory I can't see a value on your access_token variable...

-SGregory-

I noticed that too. Once i've run the POST request, although that completes and I see the token returned, it never makes it to the variable. I basically have this one poller which gets the token and other pollers which I need to use that token in subsequent GET requests. They're all to Azure, if that makes any difference.

-SGregory-

Also, I see no stored values in the other poller(s). Which I can see is one of the problems....