How to decrypt the password from the asset, while developing a custom app?

[victor_menezes]

Hi everyone,

I'm looking for a solution here while playing around with the app builder on SOAR, and I could get the asset interface work fine and from the code I can get the values from there, but the password type returns as an encrypted string instead (as the field is a password field).
How can I decrypt it so the code can use that value in runtime accordingly?

[phanTom]

This is a bug and is resolved in the latest version past 5.3.x 

One way is to publish and test, or another is to hardcode the relevant details in whilst using the IDE, then remove before publishing. This will allow for the use of the IDE whilst testing but you need to remember to remove before publishing. 

[hariomenkel · Accepted solution]

I struggled with the same issue and it turns out that while developing you can't view the real values. I just checked this with an app where I passed a password parameter as data to a request in development mode and once after publishing the app:

The first attempt shows the still encrypted value being passed to the function and after deploying, the decrypted value gets passed.

Long story short: To get the decrypted value you first need to deploy the app (I think)

[victor_menezes]

Thanks @hariomenkel. Works like a charm!

[scorsatto]

Thank you for this, I was having the same issue. Indeed we can only test the asset user/password after we install the app. this is an improvement opportunity I would say for SOAR, as we can't test it before deploy the app