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Glacier Initiate Archive Retrieval Job

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Demonstrates how to initiate an archive retrieval job to download an archive.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

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success = 0

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

set rest = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

'  Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

'  Provide AWS credentials.
set authAws = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthAws")
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.ServiceName = "glacier"
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

'  --------------------------------------------------------------------------
'  Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
'  can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
'  The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
'  the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
'  if needed.
'  --------------------------------------------------------------------------

'  For more information, see Glacier Initiate Job Post Reference Documentation
'  
success = rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

'  The body of our request will contain this JSON:
'  {
'    "Type": "archive-retrieval",
'    "ArchiveId": "NkbByEejwEggmBz2fTHgJrg0XBoDfjP4q6iu87-TjhqG6eGoOY9Z8i1_AUyUsuhPAdTqLHy8pTl5nfCFJmDl2yEZONi5L26Omw12vcs01MNGntHEQL8MBfGlqrEXAMPLEArchiveId"
'    "Description": "My archive description",
'    "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111111111111:Glacier-ArchiveRetrieval-topic-Example",
'    "Tier" : "Bulk"
'  }

'  Use this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
'  Generate Code to Create JSON

set json = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
success = json.UpdateString("Type","archive-retrieval")
success = json.UpdateString("ArchiveId","ARCHIVE_ID")
success = json.UpdateString("Description","My archive description")
'  Possible tiers are Bulk, Standard, and Expedited.
success = json.UpdateString("Tier","Bulk")
'  The SNSTopic is optional.  If included, then notification is sent to the SNS topic when the job is complete.
'  This example will omit the SNSTopic.

set sbRequestBody = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
set sbResponseBody = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

'  Start an archive retrieval in for the vault named "chilkat".
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Header:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( rest.ResponseHeader) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Response Body:") & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( sbResponseBody.GetAsString()) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

'  Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response status code = " & respStatusCode) & "</pre>"

'  If successful, the response header looks like this.
'  The Location and x-amz-job-id are two items of information we may wish to save..

'  HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
'  x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
'  Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 
'  Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault/jobs/HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
'  x-amz-job-id: HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
'  

jobId = rest.ResponseHdrByName("x-amz-job-id")
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "x-amz-job-id = " & jobId) & "</pre>"

location = rest.ResponseHdrByName("Location")
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Location = " & location) & "</pre>"

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