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Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to fetch the list of blobs in the specified container.

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bool success = false;

//  Azure Blob Service Example: List the blobs in a specified container.
//  See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd135734.aspx

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

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();

//  Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
bool bTls = true;
int port = 443;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
//  In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
success = rest.Connect("chilkat.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage azAuth = new Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage();
azAuth.AccessKey = "AZURE_ACCESS_KEY";
//  The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
azAuth.Account = "chilkat";
azAuth.Scheme = "SharedKey";
azAuth.Service = "Blob";
//  This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
azAuth.XMsVersion = "2021-08-06";
success = rest.SetAuthAzureStorage(azAuth);

//  Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
//  headers: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
//  are automatically set by Chilkat.

//  The expected success response is a 200 response status code with an XML response body.
//  In this example, we are listing the blobs in the container named "mycontainer".
string responseStr = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/mycontainer?restype=container&comp=list");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response status code,
//  with an XML response body.

if (rest.ResponseStatusCode != 200) {
    //  Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " + Convert.ToString(rest.ResponseStatusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    Debug.WriteLine("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine("response body (if any): " + responseStr);
    Debug.WriteLine("---");
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.LastRequestStartLine);
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestHeader: " + rest.LastRequestHeader);
    return;
}

//  Load the XML response for parsing.
//  An example of the response XML is shown below.
Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
success = xml.LoadXml(responseStr);

Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml());

//  Let's iterate over the blobs...

Chilkat.CkDateTime lastMod = new Chilkat.CkDateTime();

int numBlobs = xml.NumChildrenAt("Blobs");
int i = 0;
Chilkat.DtObj dt = new Chilkat.DtObj();
while (i < numBlobs) {
    Debug.WriteLine("---- Blob " + Convert.ToString(i) + " ----");
    xml.I = i;
    Debug.WriteLine("Name: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Name"));
    Debug.WriteLine("Content-Length: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-Length"));
    Debug.WriteLine("Content-Type: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-Type"));
    Debug.WriteLine("Content-MD5: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-MD5"));
    Debug.WriteLine("BlobType: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|BlobType"));
    Debug.WriteLine("LeaseStatus: " + xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|LeaseStatus"));
    lastMod.SetFromRfc822(xml.GetChildContent("Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Last-Modified"));
    lastMod.ToDtObj(true,dt);

    Debug.WriteLine("Last-Modified YMD: " + Convert.ToString(dt.Year) + "," + Convert.ToString(dt.Month) + "," + Convert.ToString(dt.Day));
    i = i + 1;
}

Debug.WriteLine("-------------------------");

//  Use the ChilkatPath method to get information for a specific blob:

//  For example, let's say we want the Last-Modified date/time for
//  the blob named "helloWorld.txt"
string lastModStr = xml.ChilkatPath("/C/Name,helloWorld.txt|..|Properties|Last-Modified|*");
Debug.WriteLine("helloWorld.txt Last-Modified: " + lastModStr);

Debug.WriteLine("Success.");

//  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
//  <EnumerationResults ServiceEndpoint="https://chilkat.blob.core.windows.net/" ContainerName="test">
//      <Blobs>
//          <Blob>
//              <Name>hamletC.xml</Name>
//              <Properties>
//                  <Last-Modified>Mon, 02 May 2016 23:50:30 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                  <Etag>0x8D372E48B6D323A</Etag>
//                  <Content-Length>279658</Content-Length>
//                  <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
//                  <Content-Encoding />
//                  <Content-Language />
//                  <Content-MD5>4E6prI9haw81xadSLeEj3Q==</Content-MD5>
//                  <Cache-Control />
//                  <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="hamletC.xml"</Content-Disposition>
//                  <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
//                  <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
//                  <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
//              </Properties>
//          </Blob>
//          <Blob>
//              <Name>helloWorld.txt</Name>
//              <Properties>
//                  <Last-Modified>Mon, 02 May 2016 15:21:55 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                  <Etag>0x8D3729D7EE38299</Etag>
//                  <Content-Length>12</Content-Length>
//                  <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
//                  <Content-Encoding />
//                  <Content-Language />
//                  <Content-MD5>7Qdih1MuhjZehB6Sv8UNjA==</Content-MD5>
//                  <Cache-Control />
//                  <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="helloWorld.txt"</Content-Disposition>
//                  <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
//                  <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
//                  <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
//              </Properties>
//          </Blob>
//          <Blob>
//              <Name>thisIsATest.txt</Name>
//              <Properties>
//                  <Last-Modified>Tue, 03 May 2016 00:22:13 GMT</Last-Modified>
//                  <Etag>0x8D372E8F9B2A62E</Etag>
//                  <Content-Length>1600</Content-Length>
//                  <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
//                  <Content-Encoding />
//                  <Content-Language />
//                  <Content-MD5>FhgUXYfePg2ItsraPmz0Xg==</Content-MD5>
//                  <Cache-Control />
//                  <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="thisIsATest.txt"</Content-Disposition>
//                  <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
//                  <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
//                  <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
//              </Properties>
//          </Blob>
//      </Blobs>
//      <NextMarker />
//  </EnumerationResults>
//