(Visual Basic 6.0) 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.

For more information, see https://docs.aws.amazon.com/secretsmanager/latest/apireference/API_CreateSecret.html

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' 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"
' }

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest

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

' Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Dim authAws As New ChilkatAuthAws
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"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

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

Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject

success = json.UpdateString("Name","MyTestDatabaseSecret2")
success = json.UpdateString("Description","My test database secret created with the CLI")
success = json.UpdateString("SecretString","{""username"":""david"",""password"":""BnQw!XDWgaEeT9XGTT29""}")
success = json.UpdateString("ClientRequestToken","EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1")

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

Dim sbRequestBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
Dim sbResponseBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim respStatusCode As Long
respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
Debug.Print "response status code = " & respStatusCode

Dim jResp As New ChilkatJsonObject
jResp.EmitCompact = 0
success = jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print jResp.Emit()
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "Response Body:"
Debug.Print 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

Dim ARN As String
ARN = jResp.StringOf("ARN")
Dim Name As String
Name = jResp.StringOf("Name")
Dim VersionId As String
VersionId = jResp.StringOf("VersionId")