SQL Server

Box.com Download Text File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of a text file into a memory (not to a local file). SQL Server

-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

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

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
    -- See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'AuthToken', 'BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN'

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'FollowRedirects', 1

    -- The file is specified by the file ID.
    -- In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 371828468442
    -- The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
    DECLARE @sb int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringBuilder', @sb OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'DownloadSb', @success OUT, 'https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content', 'utf-8', @sb
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sb
        RETURN
      END


    PRINT 'Downloaded:'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sb, 'GetAsString', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sb


END
GO