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Test Salesforce OAuth2 Access Token

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Demonstrates how to make a simple Salesforce REST API call to test a previously obtained access token.

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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Http;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.JsonObject;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringBuilder;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example does the following:

        // curl -X GET https://yourInstance.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/userinfo \
        //      -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"

        Http http = new Http();

        // Use the following online tool to generate HTTP code from a CURL command
        // Convert a cURL Command to HTTP Source Code

        // This example assumes the OAuth2 access token was previously fetched
        // and saved to a file.  See Get SalesForce OAuth2 Access Token via Authorization Flow

        JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
        try {
            json.loadFile("qa_data/tokens/_salesforce.json");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println("Failed to load OAuth2 access token.");
            return;
        }

        // Here's an example of the JSON:

        // {
        //   "access_token": "00D41000....uLZBpT6",
        //   "refresh_token": "5Aep....25xdGgkrV",
        //   "signature": "cjTbSc5DvcKpaMoRTzuQTJLb1tcMw8LEO01flq4aMD4=",
        //   "scope": "refresh_token id",
        //   "instance_url": "https://d41000000f8a0eak-dev-ed.my.salesforce.com",
        //   "id": "https://login.salesforce.com/id/00D41000000F8A0EAK/005410000....xAAE",
        //   "token_type": "Bearer",
        //   "issued_at": "1738348388166"
        // }

        // Adds the "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN" header.
        http.setAuthToken(json.stringOf("access_token"));

        // We want to build the following URL:  https://<instance_id>.salesforce.com/services/oauth2/userinfo
        StringBuilder sbUrl = new StringBuilder();
        sbUrl.append(json.stringOf("instance_url"));
        sbUrl.append("/services/oauth2/userinfo");

        StringBuilder sbResponseBody = new StringBuilder();
        try {
            http.quickGetSb(sbUrl.getAsString(), sbResponseBody);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Response status code = " + http.getLastStatus());

        JsonObject jsonResponse = new JsonObject();
        jsonResponse.loadSb(sbResponseBody);
        jsonResponse.setEmitCompact(false);
        System.out.println(jsonResponse.emit());

        // The expected JSON response is something like this:

        // {
        //   "sub": "005xxxxxxxxxxxx",
        //   "name": "John Doe",
        //   "preferred_username": "johndoe@example.com",
        //   "email": "johndoe@example.com",
        //   "profile": "https://na85.salesforce.com/005xxxxxxxxxxxx"
        // ...
        // ...
        // }
    }
}