Standard Procedure
Generally, the Bim+ REST API calls consist of three steps for accessing the resources.
1. Send a request for the authentication token.
2. Receive the authentication token.
3. Get the team information.
4. Use the token and team information for making the API request for any resource.
Note: Please use http://bimplus-dev.mantro.net for the testing purposes because our productive server https://api.bimplus.net is not available to the market yet.
1. Authentication token request
The authentication request for accessing the BimPlus resource should be sent in the JSON format using the Authorization service.
2. Receive the authentication token
The token is received in the request.
3. Get the team information
The team has to be specified and setup through the bimplus portal as so-called slugs to present a clean URL . Slugs are lowercase unique identifiers based on English characters and numbers. The team slug will be used to know which tenant database to work on. If you are not sure of your team slug please use our user administration service .
4. Request the desired resource
Using the authentication token and the team slug, the necessary resource can be accessed and the desired action can be performed on that resource using the BimPlus REST API .
For example, we can use this token to get the project list.
Tools
Plugins for doing REST based calls (REST Client)
Chrome --> Advanced REST client, Postman - REST client, Simple REST client
Firefox --> RESTClient
For validating or formatting JSON --> http://jsonlint.com/
