Creates short-lived credentials for impersonating IAM service accounts. Disabling this API also disables the IAM API (iam.googleapis.com). However, enabling this API doesn't enable the IAM API.
Service: iamcredentials.googleapis.com
To call this service, we recommend that you use the Google-provided client libraries. If your application needs to use your own libraries to call this service, use the following information when you make the API requests.
Discovery document
A Discovery Document is a machine-readable specification for describing and consuming REST APIs. It is used to build client libraries, IDE plugins, and other tools that interact with Google APIs. One service may provide multiple discovery documents. This service provides the following discovery document:
Service endpoint
A service endpoint is a base URL that specifies the network address of an API service. One service might have multiple service endpoints. This service has the following service endpoint and all URIs below are relative to this service endpoint:
https://iamcredentials.googleapis.com
REST Resource: v1.projects.serviceAccounts
| Methods | |
|---|---|
generateAccessToken |
POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:generateAccessToken Generates an OAuth 2.0 access token for a service account. |
generateIdToken |
POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:generateIdToken Generates an OpenID Connect ID token for a service account. |
signBlob |
POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:signBlob Signs a blob using a service account's system-managed private key. |
signJwt |
POST /v1/{name=projects/*/serviceAccounts/*}:signJwt Signs a JWT using a service account's system-managed private key. |