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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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Dim success As Boolean
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"
// }

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
// such as https://secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
Dim bTls As Boolean
bTls = True
Dim port As Int32
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("secretsmanager.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

// Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Dim authAws As New Chilkat.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"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

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

Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject

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

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

Dim sbRequestBody As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
Dim sbResponseBody As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim respStatusCode As Int32
respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
System.DebugLog("response status code = " + Str(respStatusCode))

Dim jResp As New Chilkat.JsonObject
jResp.EmitCompact = False
success = jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    System.DebugLog("Response Status Code = " + Str(respStatusCode))
    System.DebugLog("Response Header:")
    System.DebugLog(rest.ResponseHeader)
    System.DebugLog("Response Body:")
    System.DebugLog(jResp.Emit())
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Response Body:")
System.DebugLog(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

Dim ARN As String
ARN = jResp.StringOf("ARN")
Dim Name As String
Name = jResp.StringOf("Name")
Dim VersionId As String
VersionId = jResp.StringOf("VersionId")