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AWS Secrets Manager - Create Secret

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Creates a new secret. A secret is a set of credentials, such as a user name and password, that you store in an encrypted form in Secrets Manager.

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#include <CkRest.h>
#include <CkAuthAws.h>
#include <CkJsonObject.h>
#include <CkStringBuilder.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    // Sends the following sample request.
    // Note: Chilkat will automatically add Content-Length, X-Amz-Date, Accept-Encoding, and Authorization

    // POST / HTTP/1.1
    // Host: secretsmanager.region.domain
    // Accept-Encoding: identity
    // X-Amz-Target: secretsmanager.CreateSecret
    // Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
    // X-Amz-Date: <date>
    // Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<credentials>,SignedHeaders=<headers>, Signature=<signature>
    // Content-Length: <payload-size-bytes>
    // 
    // {
    //   "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret2",
    //   "Description": "My test database secret created with the CLI",
    //   "SecretString": "{\"username\":\"david\",\"password\":\"BnQw!XDWgaEeT9XGTT29\"}", "ClientRequestToken": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1"
    // }

    CkRest rest;

    // Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
    // such as https://secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
    bool bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    bool bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

    // Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
    CkAuthAws authAws;
    authAws.put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
    authAws.put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");
    // the region should match our URL above..
    authAws.put_Region("us-west-2");
    authAws.put_ServiceName("secretsmanager");

    rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

    // Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON:
    // Generate Code to Create JSON

    CkJsonObject json;

    json.UpdateString("Name","MyTestDatabaseSecret2");
    json.UpdateString("Description","My test database secret created with the CLI");
    json.UpdateString("SecretString","{\"username\":\"david\",\"password\":\"BnQw!XDWgaEeT9XGTT29\"}");
    json.UpdateString("ClientRequestToken","EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1");

    rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/x-amz-json-1.1");
    rest.AddHeader("X-Amz-Target","secretsmanager.CreateSecret");

    CkStringBuilder sbRequestBody;
    json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody);
    CkStringBuilder sbResponseBody;
    success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody);
    if (success != true) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    int respStatusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode();
    std::cout << "response status code = " << respStatusCode << "\r\n";

    CkJsonObject jResp;
    jResp.put_EmitCompact(false);
    jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody);

    if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
        std::cout << "Response Status Code = " << respStatusCode << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "Response Header:" << "\r\n";
        std::cout << rest.responseHeader() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "Response Body:" << "\r\n";
        std::cout << jResp.emit() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "Response Body:" << "\r\n";
    std::cout << jResp.emit() << "\r\n";

    // Sample response body:

    // {
    //   "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:954491834127:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret2-F16Tps",
    //   "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret2",
    //   "VersionId": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1"
    // }

    // Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
    // Generate Parsing Code from JSON

    const char *ARN = jResp.stringOf("ARN");
    const char *Name = jResp.stringOf("Name");
    const char *VersionId = jResp.stringOf("VersionId");
    }