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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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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    const rest = try chilkat.Rest.init();
    defer rest.deinit();
    const b_tls = true;
    const b_auto_reconnect = true;
    rest.connect("example.com", 443, b_tls, b_auto_reconnect) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        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";
    rest.setAuthBasic(username, password) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        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() catch {};

    std.debug.print("Authentication cleared.\n", .{});
}