Problems with HttpBuilder-NG basic authentication for a step definition - httpbuilder-ng

Question

I am having problems implementing HttpBuilder-NG basic authentication for a Cucumber feature step definition using Gradle, Groovy and Junit. I have sucessfully implemented this step definition using Behat/PHP. I have also verified the test using Postman.
Here is the build.gradle file
apply plugin: 'groovy'
apply plugin: 'java'
repositories {
mavenCentral()
}
dependencies {
compile 'org.codehaus.groovy:groovy-all:2.4.12'
compile 'io.github.http-builder-ng:http-builder-ng-core:1.0.2'
testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
testCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-groovy:1.2.5'
testCompile 'info.cukes:cucumber-junit:1.2.5'
}
The github API /user/repos path requires authentication to retrieve the user's repository information but the Get is returning an unAuthorized exception. If I leave out the path I get success but the base URL does not require authentication. Here is the Groovy code:
import static cucumber.api.groovy.EN.*
import cucumber.api.PendingException
import static groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder.configure
import static groovyx.net.http.util.SslUtils.ignoreSslIssues
Given(~/^I am an authenticated user$/) { ->
def github = configure {
ignoreSslIssues execution
request.uri = 'https://api.github.com'
request.auth.basic('githubUser', 'githubPassword', false)
}.get {
request.uri.path = '/user/repos'
}
assert github != null
println github.dump()
}
And here is the exception I am getting (401):
groovyx.net.http.HttpException: Unauthorized
at groovyx.net.http.NativeHandlers.failure(NativeHandlers.java:69)
at groovyx.net.http.HttpConfigs$BaseHttpConfig$$Lambda$9/15235276.apply(Unknown Source)
at groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder$ResponseHandlerFunction.apply(HttpBuilder.java:2305)
at groovyx.net.http.JavaHttpBuilder$Action.lambda$execute$2(JavaHttpBuilder.java:168)
at groovyx.net.http.JavaHttpBuilder$Action$$Lambda$56/33475769.call(Unknown Source)
at groovyx.net.http.JavaHttpBuilder$ThreadLocalAuth.with(JavaHttpBuilder.java:331)
at groovyx.net.http.JavaHttpBuilder$Action.execute(JavaHttpBuilder.java:122)
at groovyx.net.http.JavaHttpBuilder.createAndExecute(JavaHttpBuilder.java:374)
at groovyx.net.http.JavaHttpBuilder.doGet(JavaHttpBuilder.java:381)
at groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder$$Lambda$25/32560218.apply(Unknown Source)
at groovyx.net.http.HttpObjectConfigImpl.nullInterceptor(HttpObjectConfigImpl.java:47)
at groovyx.net.http.HttpObjectConfigImpl$Exec$$Lambda$23/7279823.apply(Unknown Source)
at groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder.get(HttpBuilder.java:346)
Gradle Test Executor 191 finished executing tests.
at groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder.get(HttpBuilder.java:1297)
at groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder$get$0.call(Unknown Source)
at repo-create_steps$_run_closure1.doCall(repo-create_steps.groovy:7)
at ?.Given I am an authenticated user(repo-create.feature:3)

Answer 1

It looks like GitHub does provide BASIC support (https://developer.github.com/v3/auth/) but it is non-standard and they suggest creating the Authorization header yourself, which would look something like this:
#Grab('io.github.http-builder-ng:http-builder-ng-core:1.0.2')
import static groovyx.net.http.HttpBuilder.configure
import static groovyx.net.http.util.SslUtils.ignoreSslIssues
def username = 'blah'
def password = 'blah'
def creds = "$username:$password".bytes.encodeBase64()
def github = configure {
ignoreSslIssues execution
request.uri = 'https://api.github.com'
request.headers['Authorization'] = "Basic $creds"
}.get {
request.uri.path = '/user/repos'
response.failure { fs, obj->
println "Status: ${fs.statusCode}"
fs.headers.each { h->
println h
}
}
}
println github.dump()
However, this presents a problem which you may not have on your end. I have 2-factor authentication enabled on my account so I get the X-GitHub-OTP: required; :2fa-type header back (per the documentation linked above). If you do not have 2-factor you should have what you need.
I added the failure handler to get some additional information about the failure cases - it's not required for the solution.