JavaScript

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. JavaScript

var 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"
// }

var rest = new CkRest();

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

// Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
var authAws = new CkAuthAws();
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY";
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY";
// the region should match our URL above..
authAws.Region = "us-west-2";
authAws.ServiceName = "secretsmanager";

rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

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

var json = new CkJsonObject();

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");

var sbRequestBody = new CkStringBuilder();
json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody);
var sbResponseBody = new CkStringBuilder();
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody);
if (success !== true) {
    console.log(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

var respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode;
console.log("response status code = " + respStatusCode);

var jResp = new CkJsonObject();
jResp.EmitCompact = false;
jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody);

if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
    console.log("Response Status Code = " + respStatusCode);
    console.log("Response Header:");
    console.log(rest.ResponseHeader);
    console.log("Response Body:");
    console.log(jResp.Emit());
    return;
}

console.log("Response Body:");
console.log(jResp.Emit());

// 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

var ARN = jResp.StringOf("ARN");
var Name = jResp.StringOf("Name");
var VersionId = jResp.StringOf("VersionId");