Authenticate with Mattermost API

Usage

authenticate_mattermost(
  base_url,
  token = NULL,
  username = NULL,
  password = NULL,
  test_connection = FALSE
)

Arguments

base_url: The base URL of the Mattermost server. Do not add the team name here so really only "https://yourmattermost.stackhero-network.com/"
token: Optional. The Bearer token for authentication. If NULL, it will be retrieved from options().
username: Optional. The username for login if not using a token.
password: Optional. The password for login if not using a token.
test_connection: Boolean. If `TRUE`, the function will check the connection status with Mattermost.

Value

A `mattermost_auth` object containing `base_url` and `headers` for further API calls.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
authenticate_mattermost(base_url = "https://mattermost.stackhero-network.com"
, token = "your token", test_connection = TRUE)
} # }