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AppScan® Source Data Access API
The Data Access API provides access to AppScan® Source-generated assessment results, including findings and finding details. It also provides access to assessment metrics such as analysis date and time, lines of code, V-density, and number of findings.
Data Access API classes and methods
Factory
com.ouncelabs.sdk.Factory provides methods for initialization, logging in, and opening assessments. This class is the entry point into the Data Access API.
Factory.login

`Factory.login`

Signature

public void login(String user name, String password, String host name[int :port])

Description

Logs in to the AppScan® Enterprise Server running at the specified URL or on the specified host name. You must log in before you can get assessments published to the AppScan Source Database.

Parameters

username: The user name of the user logging in.
password: The password of the user logging in.
hostname: The URL or host name host name of the AppScan Enterprise Server to which you want to log in. hostname can be either an IP address or a domain name.

If necessary, you can specify the AppScan Enterprise Server port number by appending :<port>. For example, public void login("hwall", "shhh2008", "MyHost:2880").

Throws

OunceException, if the login fails.