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Payeezy HMAC Computation

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Demonstrates how to calculate the HMAC for a Payeezy REST request.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$crypt = chilkat::CkCrypt2->new();
$prng = chilkat::CkPrng->new();

# An API key such as y6pWAJNyJyjGv66IsVuWnklkKUPFbb0a
$apiKey = "my_api_key";
# An API secret such as 86fbae7030253af3cd15faef2a1f4b67353e41fb6799f576b5093ae52901e6f7
$apiSecret = "my_api_secret";
# A token such as fdoa-a480ce8951daa73262734cf102641994c1e55e7cdf4c02b6
$token = "my_merchant_token";

# The nonce is a random number (bytes), something like "6057786719490086000"
$nonce = $prng->genRandom(8,"decimal");
print "nonce = " . $nonce . "\r\n";

$dtNow = chilkat::CkDateTime->new();
$dtNow->SetFromCurrentSystemTime();
$sbTimestamp = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
# Get the epoch timestamp in seconds
$sbTimestamp->Append($dtNow->getAsUnixTimeStr(0));
# Change it to milliseconds
$sbTimestamp->Append("000");
# The timestamp is a number similar to this: 1546011905000 (which is a timestamp taken on 28-Dec-2018).
$timestamp = $sbTimestamp->getAsString();
print "timestamp = " . $timestamp . "\r\n";

# Generate the following JSON request body:
# 	{
# 	  "merchant_ref": "Astonishing-Sale",
# 	  "transaction_type": "authorize",
# 	  "method": "token",
# 	  "amount": "200",
# 	  "currency_code": "USD",
# 	  "token": {
# 	    "token_type": "FDToken",
# 	    "token_data": {
# 	      "type": "visa",
# 	      "value": "2537446225198291",
# 	      "cardholder_name": "JohnSmith",
# 	      "exp_date": "1030",
# 	      "special_payment": "B"
# 	    }
# 	  }
# 	}

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->UpdateString("merchant_ref","Astonishing-Sale");
$json->UpdateString("transaction_type","authorize");
$json->UpdateString("method","token");
$json->UpdateString("amount","200");
$json->UpdateString("currency_code","USD");
$json->UpdateString("token.token_type","FDToken");
$json->UpdateString("token.token_data.type","visa");
$json->UpdateString("token.token_data.value","2537446225198291");
$json->UpdateString("token.token_data.cardholder_name","JohnSmith");
$json->UpdateString("token.token_data.exp_date","1030");
$json->UpdateString("token.token_data.special_payment","B");

# string hashData = apiKey + nonce + timestamp + token + jsonString;
$sbHmacData = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbHmacData->Append($apiKey);
$sbHmacData->Append($nonce);
$sbHmacData->Append($timestamp);
$sbHmacData->Append($token);
$sbHmacData->Append($json->emit());

# HMAC the data to produce a hex string.
$crypt->put_EncodingMode("hexlower");
$crypt->put_MacAlgorithm("hmac");
$crypt->SetMacKeyString($apiSecret);
$crypt->put_HashAlgorithm("sha256");
$crypt->put_Charset("utf-8");
$hexHash = $crypt->macStringENC($sbHmacData->getAsString());

# Now base64 encode the hex string:
$sbBase64Hash = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbBase64Hash->Append($hexHash);
$sbBase64Hash->Encode("base64","utf-8");

print "This is the Authorization header to be sent with the payeezy request:" . "\r\n";
print "Authorization: " . $sbBase64Hash->getAsString() . "\r\n";