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Glacier Download Archive

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Demonstrates how to download an Amazon Glacier archive. Downloading a Glacier archive is a two step process. First an archive retrieval job is initiated. After it completes, the job output is downloaded (i.e. the archive contents are downloaded.)

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

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import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

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

rest = chilkat2.Rest()

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

# Provide AWS credentials.
authAws = chilkat2.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 Retrieve Job Output Reference Documentation
# 
rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

# To download an archive, we'll make several method calls:
# 1) Send the HTTPS GET request.
# 2) Get the response body.
# 3) If the response status code indicates success, stream the response body (i.e the archive data) to a file.
# 4) If the response status code indicates an error, get the JSON error response.

# Send the GET request.
success = rest.SendReqNoBody("GET","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output")
if (success != True):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# Read the response header.
responseStatusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader()
if (responseStatusCode < 0):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

print("Response status code = " + str(responseStatusCode))

# We expect a 200 response status if the archive data is coming.
# Otherwise, we'll get a JSON response body with an error message(or no response body).
if (responseStatusCode == 200):

    bodyStream = chilkat2.Stream()

    # The stream's sink will be a file.
    bodyStream.SinkFile = "qa_output/archiveData.dat"

    # Read the response body to the stream.
    success = rest.ReadRespBodyStream(bodyStream,True)
    if (success != True):
        print(rest.LastErrorText)
        sys.exit()

    print("Successfully received the archive file.")

else:
    jsonError = rest.ReadRespBodyString()
    if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != True):
        print(rest.LastErrorText)
    else:
        print(jsonError)