(Android™) REST Basic Auth with Secure Strings

Demonstrates how to do REST Basic authentication using secure strings.

This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.71 or greater.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    boolean success;

    // Imagine we've previously saved our encrypted login and password within a JSON config file
    // that contains this:

    // {
    //   "http_login": "mCrOmA7mBA7Au9RuJGb9hw==",
    //   "http_password": "jJtiI9TgErTTpqBz9JtHBw=="
    // }

    CkJsonObject json = new CkJsonObject();
    json.LoadFile("qa_data/passwords/http.json");

    CkCrypt2 crypt = new CkCrypt2();

    // These are the encryption settings we previously used to encrypt the credentials within the JSON config file.
    crypt.put_CryptAlgorithm("aes");
    crypt.put_CipherMode("cbc");
    crypt.put_KeyLength(128);
    crypt.SetEncodedKey("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.SetEncodedIV("000102030405060708090A0B0C0D0E0F","hex");
    crypt.put_EncodingMode("base64");

    CkSecureString ssLogin = new CkSecureString();
    CkSecureString ssPassword = new CkSecureString();

    // Decrypt to the secure string.  (the strings will still held in memory encrypted, but are now encrypted using
    // a randomly generated session key.)
    crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.stringOf("http_login"),ssLogin);
    crypt.DecryptSecureENC(json.stringOf("http_password"),ssPassword);

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    // Connect to a REST server.
    boolean bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("chilkatsoft.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

    // Cause the "Authorization: Basic ..." header to be added to HTTP requests
    rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssLogin,ssPassword);

    String responseJson = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/helloWorld.html");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Show the LastRequestHeader that was sent.
    Log.i(TAG, rest.lastRequestHeader());

    // The LastRequestHeader looks like this:

    // Host: chilkatsoft.com
    // Authorization: Basic bXlIdHRwTG9naW46bXlIdHRwUGFzc3dvcmQ=

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}