Configure OAuth 2.0 Authentication for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.SetAuthOAuth2, which associates an OAuth2 provider containing a valid access token so Chilkat adds the bearer token to the Authorization header.

#include <CkRest.h>
#include <CkOAuth2.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkRest rest;
    bool bTls = true;
    bool bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  Configure OAuth 2.0 bearer-token authentication.  The provider must contain a valid access token.
    CkOAuth2 oauth2;
    //  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
    //  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
    oauth2.put_AccessToken("OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN");

    //  Associate the provider so Chilkat adds the bearer token to the Authorization header.
    success = rest.SetAuthOAuth2(oauth2);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    const char *responseText = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/resource");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        std::cout << rest.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << responseText << "\r\n";
    }