Cipher Service

The Cipher service uses the Automation Orchestrator encryption algorithms to encrypt and decrypt strings. You can use this service when a plug-in stores sensitive data.

Procedure

  1. Access the service.
    1. If the plug-in is Spring-enabled: 
      //Object must be declared in the spring context
public class MyDomainObject {

 @Autowired
 private ICipher cipherService;
}
    2. If the plug-in is not Spring-enabled: 
      public class PluginAdaptor implements IServiceRegistryAdaptor {
 private IServiceRegistry registry;
 private ICipher cipherService;
 @Override
 public void setServiceRegistry(IServiceRegistry registry) {
 this.registry = registry;
 }

 public ICipher getCipherService() {
 if (cipherService == null) {
 cipherService =
registry.getService(IServiceRegistry.CIPHER_SERVICE);
 }
 return cipherService;
 }
}
  2. Invoke the encrypt and decrypt methods. 
    public class MyCustomModelClass {
 private ICipher cipherService;

 //Encrypts a string
 cipherService.encrypt("text-to-encrypt");
 //Decrypt a vRO encrypted string
 cipherService.decrypt("..."); // the string for decryption
}
    Note: If the decryption fails, it falls back to the legacy decryption algorithm that is available in earlier versions of Automation Orchestrator.