Visual Basic 6.0

Shopify Private Authentication for Private Apps

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Shopify private authentication is for interacting with your own store through private applications. It uses HTTP "Basic" authentication with your Shopify private application key and secret key.

This example demonstrates how to send a private authenticated request using Chilkat Http, and then the same using Chilkat Rest.

Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

' This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' First demonstrate sending a simple request using Shopify private authentication w/ the Chilkat Http API.
Dim http As New ChilkatHttp

' To use HTTP Basic Authentication with any HTTP request, we simply set the Login, Password, and BasicAuth properties.
' Important: All HTTP requests using Basic authentication must be over SSL/TLS.
http.Login = "SHOPIFY_PRIVATE_API_KEY"
http.Password = "SHOPIFY_PRIVATE_API_SECRET_KEY"
http.BasicAuth = 1

' Make sure to replace "chilkat" with your store name.
Dim resp As New ChilkatHttpResponse
success = http.HttpNoBody("GET","https://chilkat.myshopify.com/admin/products.json",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Examine the response code.
If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print "Received error response code: " & resp.StatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response body:"
    Debug.Print resp.BodyStr
    Exit Sub
End If

' Success.
Debug.Print "Success."

' Examine the JSON response 
Dim sbJson As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = resp.GetBodySb(sbJson)
Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = json.LoadSb(sbJson)
json.EmitCompact = 0
Debug.Print json.Emit()

' -------------------------------------------------
' Now let's do the same using the Chilkat Rest API.
Dim rest As New ChilkatRest

' Provide the private app credentials:
success = rest.SetAuthBasic("SHOPIFY_PRIVATE_API_KEY","SHOPIFY_PRIVATE_API_SECRET_KEY")

' Connect to the shopify server.
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim port As Long
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
' Make sure to replace "chilkat" with your store name.
success = rest.Connect("chilkat.myshopify.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

sbJson.Clear 
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/admin/products.json",sbJson)
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print "Received error response code: " & rest.ResponseStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response body:"
    Debug.Print sbJson.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If

' Success...
success = json.LoadSb(sbJson)
Debug.Print json.Emit()