Java

CardConnect Test API Credentials

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To test and validate site-level credentials, you can make a GET request with no body to the base URL. Chilkat2 Java

import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Http;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        // The CardConnect REST Web Service base URL includes a protocol, host, port and servlet specification.
        //
        // For example:
        // https://<site>.cardconnect.com:<port>/cardconnect/rest/
        //
        // This represents an HTTPS request to the REST web service base URL.
        // The servlet name is fixed within the application; the host and port are assigned by CardConnect.

        Http http = new Http();

        http.setBasicAuth(true);
        http.setLogin("API_USERNAME");
        http.setPassword("API_PASSWORD");

        String url = "https://<site>.cardconnect.com:<port>/cardconnect/rest/";

        String responseStr;
        try {
            responseStr = http.quickGetStr(url);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        // If we get a 200 response status and an HTML response saying "CardConnect REST Servlet", then our credentials are correct.
        System.out.println("response status code = " + http.getLastStatus());

        System.out.println("response string:");
        System.out.println(responseStr);

        // Sample output:

        // response status code = 200
        // response string:
        // <html lang="en"><body><h1>CardConnect REST Servlet</h1></body></html>
    }
}