AEMasCS REST API calls from POSTMAN or any external application
This post details the steps to invoke REST API hosted in AEM as a Cloud Service (AEMasCS) instance from POSTMAN or any external application. As we all know AEM is REST based Web application and contents of Repository can be accessed via GET call to respective path (Eg say, ".json" extension or content path with ".html" extension) and updates to Repository is possible via respective HTTP method type + API endpoint as exposed (Eg. Assets HTTP API Create Folder POST request) , provided we have Authentication and Authorization to the accessing endpoints. Authentication is achieved using the credentials that we use to access our instance. Eg. In our local AEM author instance, we login using admin/admin or any username as created/available in the respective instance Authorization refers to the permissions to the path we are accessing Eg: If we are to make GET request on /content/we-retail.html , we need to have read permission on this path. Given this understa