Android™
Android™
Configure HTTP Basic Authentication with SecureString
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Demonstrates Rest.SetAuthBasicSecure, which configures HTTP Basic authentication using SecureString objects instead of plaintext strings.
Background. A SecureString keeps sensitive values encrypted in memory, reducing the window in which credentials appear as readable plaintext. This is otherwise equivalent to SetAuthBasic.
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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;
import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;
public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {
private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";
// Called when the activity is first created.
@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
boolean success = false;
CkRest rest = new CkRest();
boolean bTls = true;
boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
return;
}
// SetAuthBasicSecure configures HTTP Basic authentication using SecureString objects, which keep
// the credentials encrypted in memory.
// Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source. You should instead obtain them from an
// interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
CkSecureString ssUsername = new CkSecureString();
ssUsername.Append("myUsername");
CkSecureString ssPassword = new CkSecureString();
ssPassword.Append("myPassword");
success = rest.SetAuthBasicSecure(ssUsername,ssPassword);
if (success == false) {
Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
return;
}
String responseText = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/protected");
if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
return;
}
Log.i(TAG, responseText);
}
static {
System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
// Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
// then you will see the following error message at application startup:
//"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
}
}