small scala function to generate a basic authentication Authentication token / published by https://github.com/dacr/code-examples-manager #6d5cecb8-9159-40a5-9214-7bb752455e99/5ad556fcb178c52d4eb278a338c988e7956604b5

basic-auth-token.sc

// summary : small scala function to generate a basic authentication Authentication token
// keywords : scala, token, credential, basic-auth, authentication, base64, encode, @testable
// publish : gist
// authors : David Crosson
// license : Apache NON-AI License Version 2.0 (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/non-ai-licenses/non-ai-licenses/main/NON-AI-APACHE2)
// id : 6d5cecb8-9159-40a5-9214-7bb752455e99
// created-on : 2020-11-10T06:22:34Z
// managed-by : https://github.com/dacr/code-examples-manager
// run-with : scala-cli $file

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//> using scala  "3.2.2"
// ---------------------

def basicAuthToken(username: String, password: String, charsetName:String="UTF-8"): String = {
  val tokenBytes = s"$username:$password".getBytes(charsetName)
  val tokenB64 = java.util.Base64.getEncoder.encodeToString(tokenBytes)
  s"Basic $tokenB64"
}

val token = basicAuthToken("root","root")
assert(token == "Basic cm9vdDpyb290")
println(s"Authorization: $token")