How can i get authentication by passing user name and apiKey

Question

How can i get authentication by passing user name and apiKey In restful webapi using json

 

 Hi developers I am new in ajax and first time consuming web api .
This is my json object to authenticate a user . how can i pass this in ajax call to get the authenticate token please help me

 

 

POST /v2.0/tokens HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: curl/7.21.0 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.21.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8o zlib/1.2.3.4 libidn/1.15 libssh2/1.2.6

Host: identity.api.rackspacecloud.com

Accept: application/json

Content-Type: application/json

Content-Length: 54

{

"auth":

{

"RAX-KSKEY:apiKeyCredentials":

{

"username": (1)"jsmith",

"apiKey": (2)"aaaaa-bbbbb-ccccc-12345678"

}

}

}

</pre>

 

 

I am doing this but not able to consume please give me some solution

<pre lang="Javascript">

$.ajax({

url: 'https://identity.api.rackspacecloud.com/v2.0/tokens',

type: 'GET',

datatype:'application/json',

headers: { username: 'jsmith', apiKey: 'aaaaa-bbbbb-ccccc-12345678' },

success: function (data) {

alert('hi');

},

error: function (result)

{ alert('error:', result); }

});