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eBay -- Upload Bulk Data using FileTransferService

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Demonstrates how to upload your data file using the eBay File Transfer API.

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 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 example assumes the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    -- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    -- Use a previously obtained access token.  The token should look something like this:
    -- "AgAAAA**AQA ..."
    DECLARE @accessToken nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @accessToken = 'EBAY_ACCESS_TOKEN'

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

    DECLARE @apiCall nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @apiCall = 'uploadFile'
    DECLARE @fileAttachmentUuid nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @fileAttachmentUuid = '<urn:uuid:bb47b86a237311e793ae92361f002671>'
    DECLARE @xmlUuid nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @xmlUuid = '<urn:uuid:bb47b766237311e793ae92361f002671>'

    DECLARE @req int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpRequest', @req OUT

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'HttpVerb', 'POST'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'Path', '/FileTransferService'

    DECLARE @sbContentType int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringBuilder', @sbContentType OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbContentType, 'Append', @success OUT, 'multipart/related; type="application/xop+xml"; start="XMLUUID"; start-info="text/xml"'
    DECLARE @replaceCount int
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbContentType, 'Replace', @replaceCount OUT, 'XMLUUID', @xmlUuid
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbContentType, 'GetAsString', @sTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'ContentType', @sTmp0

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'X-EBAY-SOA-SERVICE-NAME', 'FileTransferService'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'X-EBAY-SOA-OPERATION-NAME', @apiCall
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'X-EBAY-SOA-SECURITY-TOKEN', @accessToken
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'X-EBAY-SOA-REQUEST-DATA-FORMAT', 'XML'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'X-EBAY-SOA-RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT', 'XML'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'User-Agent', 'AnythingYouWant'

    DECLARE @pathToFileOnDisk1 nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @pathToFileOnDisk1 = 'qa_data/ebay/uploadFileRequest.xml'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddFileForUpload', @success OUT, 'uploadFileRequest.xml', @pathToFileOnDisk1
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @req, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbContentType
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @pathToFileOnDisk2 nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @pathToFileOnDisk2 = 'qa_data/ebay/BulkDataExchangeRequests.gz'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddFileForUpload', @success OUT, 'BulkDataExchangeRequests.gz', @pathToFileOnDisk2
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @req, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbContentType
        RETURN
      END

    -- Add sub-headers for each file in the request.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddSubHeader', @success OUT, 0, 'Content-Type', 'application/xop+xml; charset=UTF-8; type="text/xml"'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddSubHeader', @success OUT, 0, 'Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'binary'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddSubHeader', @success OUT, 0, 'Content-ID', @xmlUuid
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddSubHeader', @success OUT, 1, 'Content-Type', 'application/octet-stream'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddSubHeader', @success OUT, 1, 'Content-Transfer-Encoding', 'binary'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddSubHeader', @success OUT, 1, 'Content-ID', @fileAttachmentUuid

    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpSReq', @success OUT, 'storage.sandbox.ebay.com', 443, 1, @req, @resp
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbContentType
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        RETURN
      END


    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'Response status code = ' + @iTmp0

    DECLARE @xml int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Xml', @xml OUT

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'LoadXml', @success OUT, @sTmp0

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 200
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'GetXml', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0

        PRINT 'Failed.'
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbContentType
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @xml
        RETURN
      END

    -- We still may have a failure.  The XML needs to be checked.
    -- A failed response might look like this:

    -- 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    -- 	<uploadFileResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
    -- 	    <ack>Failure</ack>
    -- 	    <errorMessage>
    -- 	        <error>
    -- 	            <errorId>1</errorId>
    -- 	            <domain>Marketplace</domain>
    -- 	            <severity>Error</severity>
    -- 	            <category>Application</category>
    -- 	            <message>Task Reference Id is invalid</message>
    -- 	            <subdomain>FileTransfer</subdomain>
    -- 	        </error>
    -- 	    </errorMessage>
    -- 	    <version>1.1.0</version>
    -- 	    <timestamp>2017-04-18T01:05:27.475Z</timestamp>
    -- 	</uploadFileResponse>

    -- A successful response looks like this:

    -- 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
    -- 	<uploadFileResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
    -- 	    <ack>Success</ack>
    -- 	    <version>1.1.0</version>
    -- 	    <timestamp>2017-04-18T01:22:47.853Z</timestamp>
    -- 	</uploadFileResponse>

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'GetXml', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- Get the "ack" to see if it's "Failure" or "Success"
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @xml, 'ChildContentMatches', @iTmp0 OUT, 'ack', 'Success', 0
    IF @iTmp0
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Success.'
      END
    ELSE
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Failure.'
      END

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @req
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbContentType
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @xml


END
GO