Who are our Snap builders?

[dmiller]

Out of curiosity, who has built their own Snaps (SnapLogic Employees excluded)?
What type of Snap did you build?

[del]

I’ve built three snaps that fit in the flow and transform categories.

[omair]

I’ve built a simple Snap backed by an account type which retrieves an authentication token when provided with a username/password

[AgronBauta]

Hi Omair,
I am evaluating SnapLogic and I am new to this platform. I developed a simple snap where I hardcoded username/password inside a JSON Generator snap and pass them to the REST Post snap to get a token from my API. Any suggestion how can I store username/password somewhere, and not hard code them tin my snap. What is a proper way of doing it?

Thank you.

[christwr]

AgronBauta:

I developed a simple snap where I hardcoded username/password inside a JSON Generator snap and pass them to the REST Post snap to get a token from my API. Any suggestion how can I store username/password somewhere, and not hard code them tin my snap. What is a proper way of doing it?

I’ve wondered this before too… Almost like we need an “account” type of object, but just generically for storing some value in a secure way for use by a pipeline. What I have done before is take my values and manually encrypt them one time using the “Encrypt Field” snap and a Passphrase type of account, then hardcode that encrypted text in the pipeline, and then decrypt it at runtime with the “Decrypt Field” snap for use downstream.

[AgronBauta]

christwr:

Passphrase type of account

Hi christwr, thank you for replying to my post. I found and downloaded a pipeline that is doing encrypt/decrypt, work in progress. Thanks.