Ruby

Get the JWS Payload as a String

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Demonstrates Jws.GetPayload, which returns the payload of a loaded JWS as text, decoded using the given charset.

Background. In practice, validate the signature before trusting the payload. Getting the payload retrieves the signed content.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

jws = Chilkat::CkJws.new()

#  Load the JWS compact serialization.
jwsCompact = "eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.VGhpcyBpcyB0aGUgY29udGVudCB0byBzaWduLg.<signature>"
success = jws.LoadJws(jwsCompact)
if (success == false)
    print jws.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

#  Return the JWS payload as text, decoded using the given charset.
payload = jws.getPayload("utf-8")
if (jws.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print jws.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print payload + "\n";