Objective-C

Clear REST Authentication Settings

Demonstrates Rest.ClearAuth, which removes any authentication providers and credentials previously configured through the SetAuth* methods.

Background. Clearing authentication is useful when reusing a Rest object for a request that must be sent without credentials, or before switching to a different authentication method.

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Objective-C

#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <NSString.h>

BOOL success = NO;

CkoRest *rest = [[CkoRest alloc] init];
BOOL bTls = YES;
BOOL bAutoReconnect = YES;
success = [rest Connect: @"example.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 443] tls: bTls autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Normally you would not hard-code secrets in source.  You should instead obtain them from an
//  interactive prompt, environment variable, or a secrets vault.
NSString *username = @"myUsername";
NSString *password = @"myPassword";
success = [rest SetAuthBasic: username password: password];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  ClearAuth removes any authentication providers and credentials previously configured through the
//  SetAuth* methods, for example before reusing the object for an unauthenticated request.
[rest ClearAuth];

NSLog(@"%@",@"Authentication cleared.");