Secrets: Sample Use Cases and Flows

This article presents possible use cases and corresponding sample flows that your app can support. It provides a useful starting point as you plan your app's implementation.

Get an API key and use it to fetch information from a weather service

This use case demonstrates how you can store an API key from a weather service (for example, https://openweathermap.org/), and then use it to fetch the weather information to display on a site.

To get the weather data:

1. Call Create Secret to store your API key you received after signing up on the OpenWeather site.

2. Call Get Secret Value, assign the returned value to a variable, and make an OpenWeather API call. For example:

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3. Extract the required values from the returned JSON object and display them on a site.