Encrypt a JWE with a Symmetric Wrapping Key

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Demonstrates Jwe.SetWrappingKey, which sets the symmetric key-wrapping key for a recipient. The key bytes are supplied in a named encoding such as hex or base64.

import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    CkJwe jwe = new CkJwe();

    //  Protected header: AES key-wrap with AES-256-GCM content encryption.
    CkJsonObject header = new CkJsonObject();
    header.UpdateString("alg","A256KW");
    header.UpdateString("enc","A256GCM");
    success = jwe.SetProtectedHeader(header);
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(jwe.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  Set the symmetric key-wrapping key for recipient 0.  The key bytes are provided in the named
    //  encoding (here base64).  In production, obtain the key from a secure source rather than hard-coding
    //  it.
    String base64Key = "YWJjZGVmZ2hpamtsbW5vcHFyc3R1dnd4eXowMTIzNDU=";
    success = jwe.SetWrappingKey(0,base64Key,"base64");
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(jwe.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    String jweCompact = jwe.encrypt("This is the secret content.","utf-8");
    if (jwe.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(jwe.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    System.out.println(jweCompact);
  }
}