Delphi DLL

IBM Cloud Secrets - Setup Bootstrap Secret in Memory

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Accessing a cloud-based secrets manager requires authentication credentials, which cannot be stored within the secrets manager itself.

This example shows how to set up an in-memory bootstrap secret with authentication credentials which will be used in other examples to access IBM Cloud Secrets.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v10.1.0 or later.

Delphi DLL

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Secrets, JsonObject;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
bootstrap: HCkSecrets;
json: HCkJsonObject;
ibm_api_key: PWideChar;

begin
success := False;

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

bootstrap := CkSecrets_Create();

// The bootstrap secret will reside in memory.
CkSecrets_putLocation(bootstrap,'memory');

// Specify the name of the bootstrap secret.
// service and username are required.
// appName and domain are optional.
// Note: The values are arbitrary and can be anything you want.
json := CkJsonObject_Create();
CkJsonObject_UpdateString(json,'appName','ibm_bs');
CkJsonObject_UpdateString(json,'service','Example');
CkJsonObject_UpdateString(json,'username','Joe');

// The bootstrap secret for the IBM Cloud Secrets will contain
// your IBM Cloud API Key, like this..
// (change the following to use your own IBM Cloud API key)
ibm_api_key := 'tI-oaEj_krD2F4Utd1ztRCE+wDWve8HvU15XxOdq7FkW';
success := CkSecrets_UpdateSecretStr(bootstrap,json,ibm_api_key);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkSecrets__lastErrorText(bootstrap));
    Exit;
  end;

// The secret is stored encrypted in memory, and is available to be used
// regardless of the lifetime of the "bootstrap" object.

Memo1.Lines.Add('The IBM Cloud bootstrap secret has been stored in memory.');

CkSecrets_Dispose(bootstrap);
CkJsonObject_Dispose(json);

end;