Generating a signature and expires in java
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Hello,
I am developing a tool for my company to get stats from SeoMoz using your API. During development, I have been using the example signature and expires values which are auto-generated for me. Now that testing is complete, my code will need to generate these values. I have been googling looking for a resource demonstrating how to do this using Java, but I have not found a good example. I was hoping that someone at SeoMoz would have a resource or an example that they could share.
The email associated with this account belongs to a non-developer, so if a response is provided via email in addition to the forum, sending it to my email would be much appreciated.
Thank you,
Anthony
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Never mind, I have come up with a solution:
package com.yourpackage.signature;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.InvalidKeyException;
import java.security.NoSuchAlgorithmException;
import java.util.Date;import javax.crypto.Mac;
import javax.crypto.spec.SecretKeySpec;import org.apache.geronimo.mail.util.Base64; //can be whichever flavor of encoder you'd like
public class SignatureGenerator {
public static final String ACCESS_ID = "member-XXXXXXX";
public static final String SECRET_KEY = "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXx";//expireTime should be in seconds since Jan 1 1970 : new Date().getTime()/1000) + X
public static String generateSignature(String data, String key, String expireTime, String algorithm)
throws InvalidKeyException, NoSuchAlgorithmException, IOException {data += expireTime;
byte[] hmacData = null;
SecretKeySpec secretKey = new SecretKeySpec(key.getBytes("UTF-8"),
algorithm);
Mac mac = Mac.getInstance(algorithm);
mac.init(secretKey);
hmacData = mac.doFinal(data.getBytes("UTF-8"));String encoded = new String(Base64.encode(hmacData));
return encoded;
}public static void main(String[] args) {
try {Long longTime = new Long(new Date().getTime()/1000) + 60;
System.out.println(longTime);
String data = ACCESS_ID + "\n";
System.out.println(generateSignature(data, SECRET_KEY, String.valueOf(longTime), "HMACSHA1"));
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}}
}
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There has been no response from SeoMoz on this forum or to my email.
Please provide some feedback. I am afraid If I cannot solve this issue I will be forced to cancel our account as it is not practical for me to manually load the sample signature and expired value on a daily basis.
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