REST API with basic auth

If you want your REST API server to use basic authentication, as of ml-gradle 2.6.0, you'll need to do 2 things.

First, because the /v1/rest-apis endpoint doesn't allow for an authentication strategy to be set, you'll have to modify the REST API server via ml-config/servers/rest-api-server.json, e.g.:

{
  "server-name": "%%NAME%%",
  "authentication": "basic"
}

Then, you'll need to modify the ml-gradle configuration so that the DatabaseClient that's constructed uses basic auth instead of digest:

ext {
  mlAppConfig {
    restAuthentication = com.marklogic.client.DatabaseClientFactory.Authentication.BASIC
  }
}

Or if you're using version 2.7.0 or higher, just set a property:

mlRestAuthentication=BASIC