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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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Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$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"
# }

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

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

# Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
$authAws = New-Object Chilkat.AuthAws
$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

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject

$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 = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$json.EmitSb($sbRequestBody)
$sbResponseBody = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",$sbRequestBody,$sbResponseBody)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$respStatusCode = $rest.ResponseStatusCode
$("response status code = " + $respStatusCode)

$jResp = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$jResp.EmitCompact = $false
$jResp.LoadSb($sbResponseBody)

if ($respStatusCode -ge 400) {
    $("Response Status Code = " + $respStatusCode)
    $("Response Header:")
    $($rest.ResponseHeader)
    $("Response Body:")
    $($jResp.Emit())
    exit
}

$("Response Body:")
$($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

$ARN = $jResp.StringOf("ARN")
$Name = $jResp.StringOf("Name")
$VersionId = $jResp.StringOf("VersionId")