Lua

AWS Secrets Manager - Create Secret

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Creates a new secret. A secret is a set of credentials, such as a user name and password, that you store in an encrypted form in Secrets Manager. Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

-- Sends the following sample request.
-- Note: Chilkat will automatically add Content-Length, X-Amz-Date, Accept-Encoding, and Authorization

-- POST / HTTP/1.1
-- Host: secretsmanager.region.domain
-- Accept-Encoding: identity
-- X-Amz-Target: secretsmanager.CreateSecret
-- Content-Type: application/x-amz-json-1.1
-- X-Amz-Date: <date>
-- Authorization: AWS4-HMAC-SHA256 Credential=<credentials>,SignedHeaders=<headers>, Signature=<signature>
-- Content-Length: <payload-size-bytes>
--
-- {
--   "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret2",
--   "Description": "My test database secret created with the CLI",
--   "SecretString": "{\"username\":\"david\",\"password\":\"BnQw!XDWgaEeT9XGTT29\"}", "ClientRequestToken": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1"
-- }

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()

-- Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
-- such as https://secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
local bTls = true
local port = 443
local bAutoReconnect = true
local success = rest:connect("secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com", port, bTls, bAutoReconnect)

-- Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
local authAws = chilkat.AuthAws.new()
authAws.access_key = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.secret_key = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
-- the region should match our URL above..
authAws.region = "us-west-2"
authAws.service_name = "secretsmanager"

rest:set_auth_aws(authAws)

-- Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON:
-- Generate Code to Create JSON

local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()

json:update_string("Name", "MyTestDatabaseSecret2")
json:update_string("Description", "My test database secret created with the CLI")
json:update_string("SecretString", "{\"username\":\"david\",\"password\":\"BnQw!XDWgaEeT9XGTT29\"}")
json:update_string("ClientRequestToken", "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1")

rest:add_header("Content-Type", "application/x-amz-json-1.1")
rest:add_header("X-Amz-Target", "secretsmanager.CreateSecret")

local sbRequestBody = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
json:emit_sb(sbRequestBody)
local sbResponseBody = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
success = rest:full_request_sb("POST", "/", sbRequestBody, sbResponseBody)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

local respStatusCode = rest.response_status_code
print("response status code = " .. respStatusCode)

local jResp = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
jResp.emit_compact = false
jResp:load_sb(sbResponseBody)

if respStatusCode >= 400 then
    print("Response Status Code = " .. respStatusCode)
    print("Response Header:")
    print(rest.response_header)
    print("Response Body:")
    print(jResp:emit())
    return
end

print("Response Body:")
print(jResp:emit())

-- Sample response body:

-- {
--   "ARN": "arn:aws:secretsmanager:us-west-2:954491834127:secret:MyTestDatabaseSecret2-F16Tps",
--   "Name": "MyTestDatabaseSecret2",
--   "VersionId": "EXAMPLE1-90ab-cdef-fedc-ba987SECRET1"
-- }

-- Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
-- Generate Parsing Code from JSON

local ARN = jResp:string_of("ARN")
local Name = jResp:string_of("Name")
local VersionId = jResp:string_of("VersionId")