(Java) Async Methods Returning an String

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.

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import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    CkHttp http = new CkHttp();

    CkTask task = http.QuickGetStrAsync("https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.html");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Start the background task.
    boolean success = task.Run();
    if (!success) {
        System.out.println(task.lastErrorText());

        return;
        }

    // The application is now free to do anything else
    // while the email is being sent.

    // For this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
    // check to see if the HTTPS GET if finished.
    while (task.get_Finished() != true) {
        // Sleep 100 ms.
        task.SleepMs(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.get_StatusInt() != 7) {
        System.out.println("Task did not complete.");
        System.out.println("task status: " + task.status());

        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.
    String html = task.getResultString();

    System.out.println(html);
  }
}