Create Registrant using GoToWebinar - api

Question

I want to create a registrant for a webinar using GoToWebinar API's. I came across the code at gotowebinar api php
I provided my username and password to get the oAuth object. This worked perfectly fine as described.
Now I want to do something like this:
I have a Registration page. When user fills in the required details, selects the 'register to webinar' option and clicks on 'Submit', I want to enrol him for that webinar using CreateRegistrant API. The problem is, I am not able to get the oAuth object without providing username and password. Is there a way to pass this programatically and create oAuth object?

Answer 1

I store my API key, UserID and password in my WebConfig then read them into a Login Object for use when I do authorization. Here's how I do it in C#:
public class Login
{
public string UserId
{ get { return System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GTWUserId"]; } }
public string Password
{ get { return System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GTWPassword"]; } }
public string APIKey
{ get { return System.Configuration.ConfigurationManager.AppSettings["GTWAPIKey"]; } }
}
public string DoAuthorize()
{
Login lg = new Login();
string sError = "";
// first we need to create the uri for the web request
string uri = String.Format("https://api.citrixonline.com/oauth/access_token?grant_type=password&user_id={0}&password={1}&client_id={2}",
lg.UserId, lg.Password, lg.APIKey);
// then the request to login is created and sent. From the response
// we need to store at least the access token and the organizer key
// to use for further calls
HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)HttpWebRequest.Create(uri);
request.Accept = "application/json";
request.ContentType = "application/json";
try
{
var response = request.GetResponse();
//the following lines duplicate the response stream so we can read it for
//deserialization and also re-read it and write it out.
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
var stream = response.GetResponseStream();
stream.CopyTo(ms);
ms.Position = 0;
stream.Close();
DataContractJsonSerializer ser = new DataContractJsonSerializer(typeof(ResponseDirectLogin));
var deserialized = (ResponseDirectLogin)ser.ReadObject(ms);
auth.OauthToken = deserialized.AccessToken;
auth.OrganizerKey = deserialized.OrganizerKey;
}
}
catch (WebException e)
{
using (var sr = new StreamReader(e.Response.GetResponseStream()))
sError = sr.ReadToEnd();
sError = String.Concat(sError, "/n", uri);
}
return sError;
}
public class Auth {
public string OauthToken { get; set; }
public string OrganizerKey { get; set; }
}
public static Auth auth = new Auth(); // This is actually in a BaseControlelr inherited by our MVC Home Controller.
public string DoRegister(string WebinarKey)
{
// Here we authorize if we haven't alerady
if (auth.OauthToken == null)
{
sMessage = DoAuthorize();
}
// first we need to create the uri for the web request
// OrganizerKey is your authorization key for the webinar organizer
string uri = String.Format(#"https://api.citrixonline.com/G2W/rest/organizers/{0}/webinars/{1}/registrants",
OrganizerKey, WebinarKey);
//then create and serialize the registrant object
// This is for when you have questions on your webinar, you can omit them if you don't have any
List<questions> q = GetQuestionKeys(Key, OrganizerKey);
List<response> responses_ = new List<response>();
foreach (var question in q)
{
response res1 = new response();
res1.questionKey = question.questionKey;
// determine which question and set the response
if (question.question == "question")
{
res1.responseText = "response";
responses_.Add(res1);
}
}
var registrant = new Registrant
{
firstName = FirstName,
lastName = LastName,
email = EmailAddress,
responses = responses_.ToArray()
};
JavaScriptSerializer ser = new JavaScriptSerializer();
string json = ser.Serialize(registrant);
// then the request to create a registrant is created and sent
// N.B. we need to include the access token to the headers to access
// the user's account and data
try {
WebClient client = new WebClient();
client.Headers = new WebHeaderCollection();
client.Headers.Add("Accept", "application/vnd.citrix.g2wapi-v1.1+json");
client.Headers.Add("Content-type", "application/json");
client.Headers.Add("Authorization", string.Format("OAuth oauth_token={0}", OAuthToken));
try
{
string resp = client.UploadString(uri, "POST", json);
var ok = ser.Deserialize<ResponseCreateRegistrantOk>(resp);
}
catch (WebException e)
{
//if there is an error, e.g. the registrant exists already
// we need an alternative deserialization
Stream s = new MemoryStream();
using (Stream response = e.Response.GetResponseStream())
{
byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
int byteCount;
do
{
byteCount = response.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);
s.Write(buffer, 0, byteCount);
} while (byteCount > 0);
}
s.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
string content = new StreamReader(s, Encoding.UTF8).ReadToEnd();
s.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
using (var err = new StreamReader(s))
{
var sb = new StringBuilder("Registration Error\n");
if (content.IndexOf("int_err_code") > -1)
{
var dupe = ser.Deserialize<ResponseCreateRegistrantDuplicate>(err.ReadToEnd());
sb.AppendFormat(String.Format("Error Code: {0}<br />", dupe.ErrorCode));
sb.AppendFormat(String.Format("Message: {0}<br />", dupe.Message));
}
else
{
var dupe = ser.Deserialize<ResponseCreateRegistrantDuplicate>(err.ReadToEnd());
sb.AppendFormat(String.Format("Description: {0}<br />", dupe.Description));
//sb.AppendFormat(String.Format("Incident: {0}<br />", dupe.Incident));
//sb.AppendFormat(String.Format("Registrant key: {0}<br />", dupe.RegistrantKey));
sb.AppendFormat(String.Format("Join Url: {0}<br />", dupe.JoinUrl));
}
sMessage = sb.ToString();
}
}
} catch (Exception exc) {
exc.Data.Add("stringInfo", "inside");
return "";
}
return sMessage;
}