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Amazon Glacier Delete Archive

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Demonstrates how to delete an archive from a vault. You can delete one archive at a time from a vault. To delete the archive you must provide its archive ID in the delete request. You can get the archive ID by downloading the vault inventory for the vault that contains the archive.

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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()

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

-- Provide AWS credentials.
local authAws = chilkat.AuthAws.new()
authAws.access_key = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.secret_key = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.service_name = "glacier"
authAws.region = "us-west-2"

success = rest:set_auth_aws(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 Delete Archive Reference Documentation
--
rest:add_header("x-amz-glacier-version", "2012-06-01")

-- Delete the access policy for the "chilkat" vault.
local sbResponseBody = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
-- Specify the x-amz-archive-id returned by Glacier when the archive was originally uploaded.
-- (The x-amz-archive-id can also be obtained by fetching the archive inventory.)
rest:add_path_param("ArchiveID", "u2DRi9wXfC-40ofjphG-oU9CQTo2PgbiHSqp8j0ISTSea7dZxABB-jkt-B_kgGU8uCCWVFUNqB4ZnE1Aw-MTZ-MZDC4w-fWmM-1UE-bSpqOUy2_BzyopZg1Dq_wOgti_6oUEz7rRmQ")
success = rest:full_request_no_body_sb("DELETE", "/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/archives/ArchiveID", sbResponseBody)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

local respStatusCode = rest.response_status_code
if respStatusCode >= 400 then
    print("Response Status Code = " .. respStatusCode)
    print("Response Header:")
    print(rest.response_header)
    print("Response Body:")
    print(sbResponseBody:get_as_string())
    return
end

-- Success is indicated by a 204 response status with an empty response body.
print("response status code = " .. respStatusCode)