As an administrator, I need an Admin API endpoint to load sample data

[poikilotherm]

Currently, IQSS/dataverse-sample-data needs to read an API token from an enabled user to create sample datasets, etc.

Using this very nice project to create demo environments would be cool. But having to fiddle around with the API token is very cumbersome during bootstrapping.

IQSS/dataverse-ansible receives the token by parsing log output on EC2. On Kubernetes, I could only use the deprecated, insecure API token retrieval.

So I propose to create an Admin API endpoint to load the data, as it would be a much cleaner and solid way.

Willing to make a contribution for this.

This is related to gdcc/dataverse-kubernetes#66, IQSS/dataverse-ansible#80

[poikilotherm]

As outlined in #6266, another approach is creating an API endpoint to create a new token for a user with short expiration time and return as result.

[poikilotherm]

Looks like this is connected to #1355:

dataverse/src/main/java/edu/harvard/iq/dataverse/authorization/AuthenticationServiceBean.java

Lines 445 to 450 in 79bfe15

	// A method for generating a new API token;
	// TODO: this is a simple, one-size-fits-all solution; we'll need
	// to expand this system, to be able to generate tokens with different
	// lifecycles/valid for specific actions only, etc.
	// -- L.A. 4.0 beta12
	public ApiToken generateApiTokenForUser(AuthenticatedUser au) {

[poikilotherm]

Unless someone else is interested, I'm going to close this. Revisiting at a later point in time.