Delphi DLL

Glacier Download Archive

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Demonstrates how to download an Amazon Glacier archive. Downloading a Glacier archive is a two step process. First an archive retrieval job is initiated. After it completes, the job output is downloaded (i.e. the archive contents are downloaded.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

Delphi DLL

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, AuthAws, Rest, Stream;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
rest: HCkRest;
bTls: Boolean;
port: Integer;
bAutoReconnect: Boolean;
authAws: HCkAuthAws;
responseStatusCode: Integer;
bodyStream: HCkStream;
jsonError: PWideChar;

begin
success := False;

// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

rest := CkRest_Create();

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
bTls := True;
port := 443;
bAutoReconnect := True;
success := CkRest_Connect(rest,'glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com',port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

// Provide AWS credentials.
authAws := CkAuthAws_Create();
CkAuthAws_putAccessKey(authAws,'AWS_ACCESS_KEY');
CkAuthAws_putSecretKey(authAws,'AWS_SECRET_KEY');
CkAuthAws_putServiceName(authAws,'glacier');
CkAuthAws_putRegion(authAws,'us-west-2');

success := CkRest_SetAuthAws(rest,authAws);

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
// can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
// The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
// the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
// if needed.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------

// 
// For more information, see Glacier Retrieve Job Output Reference Documentation
// 
CkRest_AddHeader(rest,'x-amz-glacier-version','2012-06-01');

// To download an archive, we'll make several method calls:
// 1) Send the HTTPS GET request.
// 2) Get the response body.
// 3) If the response status code indicates success, stream the response body (i.e the archive data) to a file.
// 4) If the response status code indicates an error, get the JSON error response.

// Send the GET request.
success := CkRest_SendReqNoBody(rest,'GET','/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output');
if (success <> True) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
    Exit;
  end;

// Read the response header.
responseStatusCode := CkRest_ReadResponseHeader(rest);
if (responseStatusCode < 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
    Exit;
  end;

Memo1.Lines.Add('Response status code = ' + IntToStr(responseStatusCode));

// We expect a 200 response status if the archive data is coming.
// Otherwise, we'll get a JSON response body with an error message(or no response body).
if (responseStatusCode = 200) then
  begin

    bodyStream := CkStream_Create();

    // The stream's sink will be a file.
    CkStream_putSinkFile(bodyStream,'qa_output/archiveData.dat');

    // Read the response body to the stream.
    success := CkRest_ReadRespBodyStream(rest,bodyStream,True);
    if (success <> True) then
      begin
        Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
        Exit;
      end;

    Memo1.Lines.Add('Successfully received the archive file.');

  end
else
  begin
    jsonError := CkRest__readRespBodyString(rest);
    if (CkRest_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) <> True) then
      begin
        Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
      end
    else
      begin
        Memo1.Lines.Add(jsonError);
      end;
  end;

CkRest_Dispose(rest);
CkAuthAws_Dispose(authAws);
    CkStream_Dispose(bodyStream);

end;