Swift

Async Methods Returning an String

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Demonstrates how to call an asynchronous method that returns a string. This example sends an HTTPS GET request to a URL and gets the HTML response. Swift

func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

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

    let http = CkoHttp()!

    var task: CkoTask? = http.quickGetStrAsync(url: "https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.html")
    if http.lastMethodSuccess == false {
        print("\(http.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    // Start the background task.
    success = task!.run()
    if !success {
        print("\(task!.lastErrorText!)")
        task = nil
        return
    }

    // The application is now free to do anything else

    // For this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
    // check to see if the HTTPS GET if finished.
    while task!.finished != true {
        // Sleep 100 ms.
        task!.sleepMs(numMs: 100)
    }

    // A finished task could be one that was canceled, aborted, or truly finished.  

    // If the task was "canceled", it was canceled prior to actually starting.  This could
    // happen if the task was canceled while waiting in a thread pool queue to be scheduled by Chilkat's
    // background thread pool scheduler.  

    // If the task was "aborted", it indicates that it was canceled while running in a background thread.  
    // The ResultErrorText will likely indicate that the task was aborted.

    // If the task "completed", then it ran to completion, but the actual success/failure of the method
    // is determined by the result obtained via a GetResult* method.  (A "completed" task will
    // have a StatusInt equal to 7.   If the task finished, but was not completed, then it must've
    // been aborted or canceled:
    if task!.statusInt.intValue != 7 {
        print("Task did not complete.")
        print("task status: \(task!.status!)")
        task = nil
        return
    }

    // The QuickGetStr method returns a string.  Therefore, after the task is finished,
    // we can get the string result by calling GetResultString.  This is the return value had
    // we called QuickGetStr synchronously.
    var html: String? = task!.getResultString()

    print("\(html!)")

    task = nil

}