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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.

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import sys
import chilkat

success = False

# 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"
# }

rest = chilkat.CkRest()

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

# Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
authAws = chilkat.CkAuthAws()
authAws.put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY")
authAws.put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY")
# the region should match our URL above..
authAws.put_Region("us-west-2")
authAws.put_ServiceName("secretsmanager")

rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

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

json = chilkat.CkJsonObject()

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

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

sbRequestBody = chilkat.CkStringBuilder()
json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
sbResponseBody = chilkat.CkStringBuilder()
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
if (success != True):
    print(rest.lastErrorText())
    sys.exit()

respStatusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()
print("response status code = " + str(respStatusCode))

jResp = chilkat.CkJsonObject()
jResp.put_EmitCompact(False)
jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

if (respStatusCode >= 400):
    print("Response Status Code = " + str(respStatusCode))
    print("Response Header:")
    print(rest.responseHeader())
    print("Response Body:")
    print(jResp.emit())
    sys.exit()

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

ARN = jResp.stringOf("ARN")
Name = jResp.stringOf("Name")
VersionId = jResp.stringOf("VersionId")