401 error when using apikey and url for username and password in credential

[playground]

Hi, following the instructions on Building a Translation Slack Bot with Serverless Composition. Created an instance of language translator service but not seeing username and password. Tried using apikey and url but was getting 401 error. Please advise.

[tardieu]

Hi, thanks for the report.

Sorry I did not see this before. I think I did not get the github notification.

It looks like the translation service has switched to using IAM for credential management and I don't think the cloud functions package has been updated accordingly yet.

I am looking into it..

[tardieu]

The solution for now is probably to instantiate the openwhisk watson sdk as outlined in https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/openwhisk-sdk and
https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/openwhisk-sdk/tree/master/packages/language-translator-v2 instead of relying on the /whisk.system/watson-translator package.

[playground]

Thanks for getting back with me. I have since found the answer and forgot to update it here. Thanks again.

On an unrelated question, but related to IBM cloud. I have been trying to deploy Slackin to IBM cloud but haven't found any documentation or instructions avatsaev/slackin#3
Do you have knowledge with Slackin run in IBM Cloud?

[tardieu]

Great! Could you sketch your workaround here for others with the same issue and so that we can update the tutorial?