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AWS Secrets Manager - Get Secret Value

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Retrieves the contents of the encrypted fields SecretString or SecretBinary from the specified version of a secret, whichever contains content.

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require 'chilkat'

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.GetSecretValue
# 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>
# 
# {
#   "SecretId": "MyTestDatabaseSecret",
# }

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

# 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 = 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("SecretId","MyTestDatabaseSecret2")

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

sbRequestBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
sbResponseBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

respStatusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()
print "response status code = " + respStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";

jResp = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
jResp.put_EmitCompact(false)
jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

if (respStatusCode >= 400)
    print "Response Status Code = " + respStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";
    print "Response Header:" + "\n";
    print rest.responseHeader() + "\n";
    print "Response Body:" + "\n";
    print jResp.emit() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Response Body:" + "\n";
print jResp.emit() + "\n";

# Sample response body:

# {
#   "ARN":"arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:123456789012:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret-a1b2c3",
#   "CreatedDate":1.523477145713E9,
#   "Name":"MyTestDatabaseSecret",
#   "SecretString":"{\n  \"username\":\"david\",\n  \"password\":\"BnQw&XDWgaEeT9XGTT29\"\n}\n",
#   "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")
CreatedDate = jResp.stringOf("CreatedDate")
Name = jResp.stringOf("Name")
SecretString = jResp.stringOf("SecretString")
VersionId = jResp.stringOf("VersionId")