How to access the stream gateway
Similarly to AMS, the Stream Gateway (see About application streaming for more information) exposes its API over an HTTP interface. Clients can be anything from the provided web dashboard to any custom client you develop.
To access the Stream Gateway, make sure that its HTTP API is exposed. This is the default configuration.
Service accounts
All calls to the Stream Gateway must be authenticated. Authentication takes the form of a single token per client you must embed in your requests.
A token is associated to a service account, has a limited lifetime, and can be revoked at any time.
1. Creating the token
An internal HTTP API is exposed for managing client tokens. This API is only accessible via a Unix domain socket which resides at /var/snap/anbox-stream-gateway/common/service/unix.socket by default.
For convenience, the Stream Gateway has a built-in client designed to communicate to that API.
Creating a token
If you are running a full Anbox Cloud deployment, use the following command to create a token:
anbox-stream-gateway account create my-client
If you are running the Anbox Cloud Appliance, use the following command:
anbox-cloud-appliance gateway account create my-client
Deleting a token
If you are running a full Anbox Cloud deployment, use the following command to delete a token:
anbox-stream-gateway account delete my-client
Type anbox-stream-gateway --help to list all commands
2. Using the token in your requests
When making requests to the Stream Gateway API you can either place the token in the request HTTP headers or in the query parameters.
Request headers
curl -X GET https://20.234.75.29:4000/1.0/sessions \
-H 'authorization:macaroon root=AgEUYW5ib3...QSyzaA_GHLYQ'
Query parameters
curl -X GET https://20.234.75.29:4000/1.0/sessions?api_token=AgEUYW5ib3...QSyzaA_GHLYQ
The Anbox Stream SDK handles the token automatically for all its requests.
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