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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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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# 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"
# }

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

# Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
# such as https://secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);

# Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
$authAws = chilkat::CkAuthAws->new();
$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

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();

$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");

$sbRequestBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$json->EmitSb($sbRequestBody);
$sbResponseBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestSb("POST","/",$sbRequestBody,$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode();
print "response status code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";

$jResp = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$jResp->put_EmitCompact(0);
$jResp->LoadSb($sbResponseBody);

if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print "Response Status Code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";
    print "Response Header:" . "\r\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "Response Body:" . "\r\n";
    print $jResp->emit() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

print "Response Body:" . "\r\n";
print $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

$ARN = $jResp->stringOf("ARN");
$Name = $jResp->stringOf("Name");
$VersionId = $jResp->stringOf("VersionId");