topic Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey in Splunk Dev

Java SDK connect with sessionKey

lweber — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:38:25 GMT

because it took me a while to figure out, I'll post the question and give the answer myself...

Using the documentation I did not figure out how I can connect to Splunk using a session key (eg. passed from a python script via passAuth).

The documentation is showing an example using the Service.login(...) and the Service.setToken(String token)method, the latter was used for a base64 encripted username:password token.

answer will follow in a second...

Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey

lweber — Tue, 02 Jun 2015 19:42:34 GMT

it's simple as this 😉

Service.setToken("Splunk sessionKey")

btw:
in the example: http://dev.splunk.com/view/java-sdk/SP-CAAAECX you're using com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.impl.dv.util.Base64 to encode the user:password token. It is always a bad (!) idea to use code placed in class placed in a internalpackage.
Use: java.util.Base64 instead.

Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey

npbala_22 — Thu, 15 Mar 2018 14:11:05 GMT

How to get sessionKey for particular splunk db

Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey

lweber — Tue, 20 Mar 2018 09:32:17 GMT

depends where you want to use it.

in plain Java you need to login first. Service.getToken, you can use the sessionkey from you browser session, but it will expire.
if you java code gets called from a REST endpoint (python) which extends splunk.rest.BaseRestHandler you already have it in your class (self.sessionKey).

Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey

sathishraja92 — Fri, 04 May 2018 18:13:41 GMT

can you share the piece of your code which uses the Splunk session key to connect and create/poll/consume the search !

Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey

lweber — Sun, 06 May 2018 13:40:26 GMT

the sdk is quite well documented. have a look at: http://dev.splunk.com/java and the examples.
the setToken method is docmentented here: http://docs.splunk.com/DocumentationStatic/JavaSDK/1.6.4/com/splunk/ServiceArgs.html#setToken-java.lang.String-

Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey

sathishraja92 — Thu, 10 May 2018 10:12:08 GMT

Thanks. It worked

Re: Java SDK connect with sessionKey

mishiehow — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 22:59:43 GMT

The session key gets added in a cookie which browser uses on the subsequent search call.