Where to get the client-secret from for my forge app?

[PranjalSrivastava]

Hi, Where can i get the client-secret for my forge app?

[ibuchanan]

Welcome to the Atlassian developer community @PranjalSrivastava,

The answer is simple: you cannot. Maybe you can say a little more about why you think you need that?

[PranjalSrivastava]

I plan to have my forge app and another separate application of mine to be able to send and receive rest api calls seamlessly and to authenticate my application with forge using oauth i thought i would need client id and client secret as usual. could you please guide me through this.

[PranjalSrivastava]

@ibuchanan I needed a bit of help for my use case and would want to connect with you if possible. It would be a great help to me. My mailId is pranjal.srivastava@digite.com

[ibuchanan]

@PranjalSrivastava,

I’m not able to do 1:1 communications. What you want to accomplish is provided by a feature still under development. Have a look at:

RFC-8 Forge Remote

RFCs are a way for Atlassian to share what we’re working on with our valued developer community. It’s a document for building shared understanding of a topic. It expresses a technical solution, but can also communicate how it should be built or even document standards. The most important aspect of an RFC is that a written specification facilitates feedback and drives consensus. It is not a tool for approving or committing to ideas, but more so a collaborative practice to shape an idea and to f…

Some of the milestones mentioned in that RFC have been implemented so your scenario might be possible. Otherwise, please keep explaining how the components need to talk to each other.

[PranjalSrivastava]

Thanks @ibuchanan for the info.