Configuring the API Consumption Settings
The APIs represented in the CentraSite Business UI require that requests for consumption include a unique identifier for consumption. A unique identifier can do the following:
Identify who is making a request.
Authenticate and validate the client who is making a request.
Authorize whether the client making a request is allowed to make that request.
CentraSite supports two separate mechanisms to create a unique identifier for clients to use for consuming APIs: API keys and OAuth 2.0 tokens.
The API provider (owner of the API) enforces the type of authentication (API key or OAuth2 token) required for consuming an API. Based on the authentication enforced for the API, an API consumer will request the API key or the OAuth2 token in order to consume (call) that API.
