Configure HTTP Basic Authentication for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.SetAuthBasic, which configures HTTP Basic authentication from a username and password. Chilkat automatically adds the Authorization header to each request sent through the object.

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';

  // Configure HTTP Basic authentication.  Chilkat automatically adds the Authorization header to
  // each request sent through this object.
  try {
    rest.setAuthBasic(username, password);
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  let responseText: string;
  try {
    responseText = await rest.fullRequestNoBodyAsync('GET', '/api/protected');
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  console.log(responseText);
}