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Get the JWS Payload as a String

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Demonstrates Jws.GetPayload, which returns the payload of a loaded JWS as text, decoded using the given charset.

Background. In practice, validate the signature before trusting the payload. Getting the payload retrieves the signed content.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loJws
LOCAL lcJwsCompact
LOCAL lcPayload

lnSuccess = 0

loJws = CreateObject('Chilkat.Jws')

*  Load the JWS compact serialization.
lcJwsCompact = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgY29udGVudCB0byBzaWduLg.<signature>"
lnSuccess = loJws.LoadJws(lcJwsCompact)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loJws.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJws
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  Return the JWS payload as text, decoded using the given charset.
lcPayload = loJws.GetPayload("utf-8")
IF (loJws.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loJws.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loJws
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcPayload

RELEASE loJws