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Download a Text File into a String

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Downloads a text file to a string variable.

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Local $bSuccess = False

; Azure File Service Example: Download Text File into String
; See:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/get-file

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

$oRest = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Rest")

; Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
Local $bTls = True
Local $iPort = 443
Local $bAutoReconnect = True
; In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
$bSuccess = $oRest.Connect("chilkat.file.core.windows.net",$iPort,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

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

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

; Send a GET request to download the file "hamlet.xml" to a StringBuilder object.
; (The share name is "pip")
$oSbFileContents = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$bSuccess = $oRest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/pip/xmlFiles/hamlet.xml",$oSbFileContents)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; When successful, the response status will be 200.
; If a non-success status code is returned, then the sbFileContents actually contains the XML error message.
If ($oRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    ; Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    ConsoleWrite("response status code = " & $oRest.ResponseStatusCode & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("response status text = " & $oRest.ResponseStatusText & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("response header: " & $oRest.ResponseHeader & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("response body (if any): " & $oSbFileContents.GetAsString() & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("---" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("LastRequestStartLine: " & $oRest.LastRequestStartLine & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("LastRequestHeader: " & $oRest.LastRequestHeader & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

ConsoleWrite("Length of downloaded string = " & $oSbFileContents.Length & @CRLF)

Local $strFileContents = $oSbFileContents.GetAsString()
ConsoleWrite($strFileContents & @CRLF)

$oSbFileContents.WriteFile("qa_output/hamlet.xml","utf-8",False)