(Android™) REST File Streaming Upload

Demonstrates how to stream the REST body from a file. This example demonstrates a REST upload to the Azure Cloud Storage service.

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// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

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

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    // Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
    boolean bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    // In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
    boolean success = rest.Connect("chilkat.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
    CkAuthAzureStorage azAuth = new CkAuthAzureStorage();
    azAuth.put_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.put_Account("chilkat");
    azAuth.put_Scheme("SharedKey");
    azAuth.put_Service("Blob");
    // This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
    azAuth.put_XMsVersion("2021-08-06");
    success = rest.SetAuthAzureStorage(azAuth);

    // Set some request headers.
    success = rest.AddHeader("x-ms-blob-content-disposition","attachment; filename=\"hamlet.xml\"");
    success = rest.AddHeader("x-ms-blob-type","BlockBlob");
    success = rest.AddHeader("x-ms-meta-m1","v1");
    success = rest.AddHeader("x-ms-meta-m2","v2");

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

    CkStream fileStream = new CkStream();
    fileStream.put_SourceFile("qa_data/xml/hamlet.xml");

    // Upload to the Azure Cloud Storage service.
    // The file is streamed, so the full file never has to completely reside in memory.
    // The file is uploaded to the container named "test".
    String responseStr = rest.fullRequestStream("PUT","/test/hamlet.xml",fileStream);
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 201 response code,
    // with an empty body.  Therefore, in the success condition, the responseStr is empty.
    if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() == 201) {
        Log.i(TAG, "File uploaded.");
        }
    else {
        // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
        Log.i(TAG, "response status code = " + String.valueOf(rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()));
        Log.i(TAG, "response status text = " + rest.responseStatusText());
        Log.i(TAG, "response header: " + rest.responseHeader());
        Log.i(TAG, "response body (if any): " + responseStr);
        Log.i(TAG, "---");
        Log.i(TAG, "LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.lastRequestStartLine());
        Log.i(TAG, "LastRequestHeader: " + rest.lastRequestHeader());
        }


  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}