Chris Hoina Senior Product Manager @ Oracle Database Tools
ORDS 25.1 is now available, here are the highlights 😀 JWT roles-based scopes You are probably well aware of our current JWTs authentication and authorization support. But shortly after releasing this functionality, one of our long-time customers asked us to enhance ORDS JWT Profiles so they could also support roles “claims” (and scopes). So now, … Read more
Symptom/Issue In an internal Slack thread today, a user was trying to diagnose browser latency while attempting to connect to the ORDS landing page. Peter suggested what I thought was a pretty neat heuristic for checking connections to ORDS and your database, as well as latency. Methodology Let’s say your symptoms are either slow loading … Read more
Symptoms You are able to request an access token from OCI IAM. Yet, when you issue the subsequent request to your target resource (an ORDS endpoint), you receive the following message (error=”invalid_token”): Actions you’ve taken YET…you still receive this error=”invalid_token” message, it is quite possible that you have not made the JWK URL publically accessible in … Read more
This actually came about from a Support Request. We were troubleshooting a JWT issue, that had ORDS in the mix. Ultimately, this is looking more and more like a networking issue (maybe something to do with routing rules between the load balancer and the backend server). But in the course of our troubleshooting, we wanted … Read more
Venkata this one’s for you 😀 It took me the rest of the afternoon, but here is a pretty simple GET request example, using a user-defined ORDS API. This API is derived from one of our LiveLabs, a Python + JavaScript application. But this particular scenario pretty well exemplifies what we discussed in our presentation … Read more
Have you ever seen this? Have you ever seen a message like this while working with ORDS? The one where you receive a 503 Service Unavailable response code and message? This message has something to do with ORDS being unable to make a connection to the database. But if you keep reading, you’ll see even … Read more
Table of Contents Intended Audience/Purpose Does this describe you? Creating a Domain Configure Client Access Adding an Integrated Application to the Domain Adding the application Configuring OAuth Resource server configuration Client Configuration Issuing a POST request to obtain a JWT Gathering the required values for the request Setting up Postman Requesting the JWT ORDS configuration … Read more
Recently, we (one of our Support engineers and I) worked with a customer who had integrated various ORDS POST APIs with a web-based form application called JotForm. JotForm offers integrations for numerous workflows, some official and others you can create independently. That’s where we come in. In this example, a user would enter information into … Read more
So what even is new in ORDS 24.4? How about an abbreviated list of some fan favorites? Pre-Authenticated endpoints Using the new ORDS_PAR PL/SQL package, users can create, revoke, issue and set tokens and token life for specific resources. Your REST-enabled schema will automatically have access to this new feature in 24.4. You can execute … Read more
Problem description You’ve just upgraded ORDS and issued the ords serve command. As ORDS is starting up, you see the following warning (or something like it): How to fix Easy! In this case, I removed the standalone.static.path property of the ORDS Global configuration settings. WAIT JUST A MINUTE! This approach was successful because I determined … Read more