(C) 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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#include <C_CkHttp.h>
#include <C_CkTask.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    HCkHttp http;
    HCkTask task;
    BOOL success;
    const char *html;

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

    http = CkHttp_Create();

    task = CkHttp_QuickGetStrAsync(http,"https://www.chilkatsoft.com/helloWorld.html");
    if (CkHttp_getLastMethodSuccess(http) == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkHttp_lastErrorText(http));
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        return;
    }

    // Start the background task.
    success = CkTask_Run(task);
    if (!success) {
        printf("%s\n",CkTask_lastErrorText(task));
        CkTask_Dispose(task);
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        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 (CkTask_getFinished(task) != TRUE) {
        // Sleep 100 ms.
        CkTask_SleepMs(task,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 (CkTask_getStatusInt(task) != 7) {
        printf("Task did not complete.\n");
        printf("task status: %s\n",CkTask_status(task));
        CkTask_Dispose(task);
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        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.
    html = CkTask_getResultString(task);

    printf("%s\n",html);

    CkTask_Dispose(task);


    CkHttp_Dispose(http);

    }