Execute workflow from JavaScript

KNIME Server
1

Hi,

I have to execute a knime workflow from javascript. I am using rest api for this purpose. Please find the js snippet below:

function rest_api_call() {
	
	let url = 'https://knime.zf-world.com/knime/rest/v4/repository/AIT/Test/simple_restapi:execution';
	let username = 'xxxxx';
	let password = 'xxxxx';

	let headers = new Headers();

  	headers.set('Authorization', 'Basic ' + btoa(username + ":" + password));

	fetch(url, {method:'POST',
			headers: headers,
			credentials: 'include'
		   })
	.then(response => response.json())
	.then(json => console.log(json));
}

But when I am executing this function (calling from another html file), I am getting following CORS error:

Access to fetch at 'https://knime.zf-world.com/knime/rest/v4/repository/AIT/Test/simple_restapi:execution' from origin 'null' has been blocked by CORS policy: Response to preflight request doesn't pass access control check: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. If an opaque response serves your needs, set the request's mode to 'no-cors' to fetch the resource with CORS disabled.`

Can someone please help me to fix this issue?

Regards,
Nithin

2

I have this same issue.

I have tried changing the web.xml in both conf and inf with the suggested settings from:

https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/config/filter.html#CORS_Filter

Other issues that referenced this are at:

Have you found a solution to this? What have you tried?

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3

I still do not have my Knime Medium up and running. I reached out to support for help. This is all I got back so far.

Another resource I dug up:

From Knime Support:

The server is crashing, because cors.allowed.origins=* is not allowed together with cors.support.credentials=true (rephrased from here: Reason: Credential is not supported if the CORS header 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' is '*' - HTTP | MDN).

I’m assuming in your use case you are only using subdirectories on the same domain, so that you could change cors.allowed.origins from “" to "/”:

cors.allowed.origins
/*

4

I did not want to change anything in the server side, so I added following line into my code:
process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0";
This is really unsafe and should not be used in the production environment, but for testing porposes it works for me.

Complete code:

function rest_api_call() {
	var response = '';
	process.env.NODE_TLS_REJECT_UNAUTHORIZED = "0";
	var http = require('https');
	const header = {
		'hostname': 'knime-test.com',
		'port': 8080,
		'path': '/rest/v4/repository/Test/simple_restapi:execution',
		'auth': 'user:pass'
	};
	var request = http.request(header, function (response) {
								 response = 'STATUS: ' + response.statusCode;
								 console.log(response);
							   });
	request.end();
}
rest_api_call();

Regards,
Nithin