React Native

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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import { Rest } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  const rest = new Rest();
  const bTls = true;
  const bAutoReconnect = true;
  try {
    await rest.connectAsync('example.com', 443, bTls, bAutoReconnect);
  } catch {
    console.log(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.
  const username = 'myUsername';
  const password = 'myPassword';
  try {
    rest.setAuthBasic(username, password);
  } catch {
    console.log(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();

  console.log('Authentication cleared.');
}