# Kibana SavedObject API
**URL:** https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831
**Category:** Kibana
**Created:** [March 25, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831 "2019-03-25T21:35:18Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Joseph\_Mak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joseph_Mak)
#### Post date: [March 25, 2019, 9:35pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831/1 "2019-03-25T21:35:18Z")
I am able to use SavedObject API ([https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api.html)) via http POST in local elastic search by using localhost 5601.
However, in cloud Elastic Search there is https and username/password. How to pass this along in the POST?
I know you can pass in -u parameters in CURL. How to do this in a http post (in Java)? is there a Java API for Kibana?
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### Author:  [@LizaD](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/LizaD)
#### Post date: [March 26, 2019, 3:55pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831/2 "2019-03-26T15:55:49Z")
Hi,
I don't believe we have a Java API for Kibana, how about using HttpURLConnection in Java to do the request? [https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html](https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/net/HttpURLConnection.html)
Thanks.
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### Author:  [@Joseph\_Mak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joseph_Mak)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 3:19pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831/3 "2019-03-27T15:19:40Z")
So I am following the example here for
[https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-create.html](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/kibana/current/saved-objects-api-create.html)
This CURL command below does work for my local kibana, it created a index pattern for me:
curl -X POST "[http://localhost:5601/api/saved\_objects/index-pattern/my-pattern](http://localhost:5601/api/saved_objects/index-pattern/my-pattern)" -H 'kbn-xsrf: true' -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d'
{
"attributes": {
"title": "my-pattern-\*"
}
}
'
So I substituted the url [http://localhost:5601](http://localhost:5601) with my Cloud Kibana url, and try passing credentials along with -u username:password, but it didn't work, it didn't create an index on my kibana cloud. I am getting
curl: (52) Empty reply from server
So my question is... does the Kibana SavedObject API work for the cloud version? if so how to pass the credentials?
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### Author:  [@Brandon\_Kobel](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Brandon_Kobel)
#### Post date: [March 27, 2019, 7:17pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831/4 "2019-03-27T19:17:42Z")
@Joseph_Mak Kibana's saved object API does work for the cloud version. If you're using cURL to do so, you use the same `-u username:password` flag which you do locally. You can use the `-I` flag with curl to get additional information, which might be helpful in your situation.
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### Author:  [@Joseph\_Mak](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/Joseph_Mak)
#### Post date: [March 29, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831/5 "2019-03-29T18:46:16Z")
Thank you... so my solution (java) is:
```
String encoding = Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString((user + ":" + password).getBytes());
HttpPost request = new HttpPost();
request.setHeader(HttpHeaders.AUTHORIZATION, "Basic " + encoding);
request.setHeader("kbn-xsrf","true");
String payload =
StringEntity entity = new StringEntity(payload, ContentType.APPLICATION_JSON);
request.setEntity(entity);
HttpResponse response = httpClient.execute(request)
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2019, 6:46pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/kibana-savedobject-api/173831/6 "2019-04-26T18:46:20Z")
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