Android™

S3 Upload String using AWS Signature Version 2

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Example to upload the contents of a string to the Amazon S3 service, using the older AWS Signature Version 2. Android™

// 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);

    boolean success = false;

    // Demonstrates how to use older AWS S3 Signature Version 2 for uploading the contents
    // of a string variable to an object in a bucket.

    // 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 Amazon AWS REST server.
    boolean bTls = true;
    int port = 443;
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    // The file is uploaded to the bucket named "chilkat100", which becomes part of the domain:
    success = rest.Connect("chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Important: For buckets created in regions outside us-east-1,
    // there are three important changes that need to be made.
    // See Working with S3 Buckets in Non-us-east-1 Regions for the details.
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
    CkAuthAws authAws = new CkAuthAws();
    authAws.put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
    authAws.put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");
    authAws.put_ServiceName("s3");

    // For AWS Signature Version 2, the following two properties need to be set:
    authAws.put_SignatureVersion(2);
    // See http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/dev/RESTAuthentication.html#ConstructingTheCanonicalizedResourceElement
    // The bucket is "chilkat100", and the uriPath is "/hamlet_play.xml", which must match
    // the URI path passed to the FullRequestString method below.
    authAws.put_CanonicalizedResourceV2("/chilkat100/hamlet_play.xml");

    success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

    // Load a text file into memory.
    CkFileAccess fac = new CkFileAccess();
    String fileContents = fac.readEntireTextFile("qa_data/xml/hamlet.xml","utf-8");
    if (fac.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, fac.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // To send the file in gzip or deflate compressed format, set the Content-Encoding request
    // header to "gzip" or "deflate".  (this is optional)
    success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Encoding","gzip");

    // Indicate the Content-Type of our upload.  (This is optional)
    success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/xml");

    // We can add an "Expect: 100-continue" header so that if the request is rejected
    // by the server immediately after receiving the request header, it can respond
    // and the client (Chilkat) can avoid sending the file data.
    // (this is optional)
    success = rest.AddHeader("Expect","100-continue");

    // Upload the file to Amazon S3.
    String responseBodyStr = rest.fullRequestString("PUT","/hamlet_play.xml",fileContents);
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // Did we get a 200 response indicating success?
    int statusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode();
    if (statusCode != 200) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Error response: " + responseBodyStr);
        Log.i(TAG, "Status code: " + String.valueOf(statusCode) + ", Status text: " + rest.responseStatusText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "File successfully uploaded.");

  }

  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."
  }
}