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Glacier Initiate Archive Retrieval Job

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Demonstrates how to initiate an archive retrieval job to download an archive.

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

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    success := false

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

    rest := chilkat.NewRest()

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

    // Provide AWS credentials.
    authAws := chilkat.NewAuthAws()
    authAws.SetAccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY")
    authAws.SetSecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY")
    authAws.SetServiceName("glacier")
    authAws.SetRegion("us-west-2")

    success = rest.SetAuthAws(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 Initiate Job Post Reference Documentation
    // 
    rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

    // The body of our request will contain this JSON:
    // {
    //   "Type": "archive-retrieval",
    //   "ArchiveId": "NkbByEejwEggmBz2fTHgJrg0XBoDfjP4q6iu87-TjhqG6eGoOY9Z8i1_AUyUsuhPAdTqLHy8pTl5nfCFJmDl2yEZONi5L26Omw12vcs01MNGntHEQL8MBfGlqrEXAMPLEArchiveId"
    //   "Description": "My archive description",
    //   "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111111111111:Glacier-ArchiveRetrieval-topic-Example",
    //   "Tier" : "Bulk"
    // }

    // Use this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
    // Generate Code to Create JSON

    json := chilkat.NewJsonObject()
    json.UpdateString("Type","archive-retrieval")
    json.UpdateString("ArchiveId","ARCHIVE_ID")
    json.UpdateString("Description","My archive description")
    // Possible tiers are Bulk, Standard, and Expedited.
    json.UpdateString("Tier","Bulk")
    // The SNSTopic is optional.  If included, then notification is sent to the SNS topic when the job is complete.
    // This example will omit the SNSTopic.

    sbRequestBody := chilkat.NewStringBuilder()
    json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
    sbResponseBody := chilkat.NewStringBuilder()

    // Start an archive retrieval in for the vault named "chilkat".
    success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
        rest.DisposeRest()
        authAws.DisposeAuthAws()
        json.DisposeJsonObject()
        sbRequestBody.DisposeStringBuilder()
        sbResponseBody.DisposeStringBuilder()
        return
    }

    respStatusCode := rest.ResponseStatusCode()
    if respStatusCode >= 400 {
        fmt.Println("Response Status Code = ", respStatusCode)
        fmt.Println("Response Header:")
        fmt.Println(rest.ResponseHeader())
        fmt.Println("Response Body:")
        fmt.Println(*sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
        rest.DisposeRest()
        authAws.DisposeAuthAws()
        json.DisposeJsonObject()
        sbRequestBody.DisposeStringBuilder()
        sbResponseBody.DisposeStringBuilder()
        return
    }

    // Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
    fmt.Println("response status code = ", respStatusCode)

    // If successful, the response header looks like this.
    // The Location and x-amz-job-id are two items of information we may wish to save..

    // HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
    // x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
    // Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 
    // Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault/jobs/HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
    // x-amz-job-id: HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
    // 

    jobId := rest.ResponseHdrByName("x-amz-job-id")
    fmt.Println("x-amz-job-id = ", *jobId)

    location := rest.ResponseHdrByName("Location")
    fmt.Println("Location = ", *location)

    rest.DisposeRest()
    authAws.DisposeAuthAws()
    json.DisposeJsonObject()
    sbRequestBody.DisposeStringBuilder()
    sbResponseBody.DisposeStringBuilder()