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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 { AuthAws, JsonObject, Rest, StringBuilder } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // 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"
  // }

  const rest = new Rest();

  // Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
  // such as https://secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
  const bTls = true;
  const port = 443;
  const bAutoReconnect = true;
  await rest.connectAsync('secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com', port, bTls, bAutoReconnect);

  // Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
  const authAws = new AuthAws();
  authAws.accessKey = 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY';
  authAws.secretKey = 'AWS_SECRET_KEY';
  // the region should match our URL above..
  authAws.region = 'us-west-2';
  authAws.serviceName = 'secretsmanager';

  rest.setAuthAws(authAws);

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

  const json = new JsonObject();

  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');

  const sbRequestBody = new StringBuilder();
  json.emitSb(sbRequestBody);
  const sbResponseBody = new StringBuilder();
  try {
    await rest.fullRequestSbAsync('POST', '/', sbRequestBody, sbResponseBody);
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  const respStatusCode = rest.responseStatusCode;
  console.log(`response status code = ${respStatusCode}`);

  const jResp = new JsonObject();
  jResp.emitCompact = false;
  jResp.loadSb(sbResponseBody);

  if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
    console.log(`Response Status Code = ${respStatusCode}`);
    console.log('Response Header:');
    console.log(rest.responseHeader);
    console.log('Response Body:');
    console.log(jResp.emit());
    return;
  }

  console.log('Response Body:');
  console.log(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

  const arn = jResp.stringOf('ARN');
  const name = jResp.stringOf('Name');
  const versionId = jResp.stringOf('VersionId');
}