(C#) REST Receive Response in Chunks

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Demonstrates how to receive a REST HTTP response in chunks.

Note: This example requires Chilkat 10.1.0 or greater.

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

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();

// Connect to the web server
bool bTls = true;
int port = 443;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
bool success = rest.Connect("chilkatsoft.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Send the request.
// This can be *any* kind of request: POST, GET, PUT, etc. using *any* of the Chilkat REST methods that send requests.
// For this example, we'll just GET a simple XML document that is about 274K in size.

success = rest.SendReqNoBody("GET","/hamlet.xml");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Get the response header.
int statusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader();
if (statusCode < 0) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " + Convert.ToString(statusCode));

string outputFile = "c:/temp/qa_output/hamlet.xml";

Chilkat.FileAccess fac = new Chilkat.FileAccess();
success = fac.OpenForWrite(outputFile);
if (statusCode < 0) {
    Debug.WriteLine(fac.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Get the response in chunks.
// (Note: There are more efficient ways to simply download a file from a web server, such as by calling Chilkat's Http.Download method.
// The purpose of this method is to show how to receive a response chunk-by-chunk.)
Chilkat.BinData bd = new Chilkat.BinData();
int status = 1;
while (status == 1) {
    // Read a minimum of 16000 bytes.
    // Note: Because of TLS message lengths, or the possibility of the response being either compressed (gzip/deflate) or in the HTTP chunked encoding,
    // the amount of data received in each call can be greater than the specified min size.
    // Chilkat will return from the call as soon as it has received an amount equal to or more than the specified size,
    // except for the very last chunk, which can be less that the min size or even 0 bytes.

    // The status will be one of three values:
    // -1 = error
    // 0 = received the last chunk of the response.
    // 1 = received a chunk, and more chunks are coming..

    // The received data is *appended* to the contents of the BinData object.
    status = rest.ReadRespChunkBd(16000,bd);
    if (status >= 0) {
        Debug.WriteLine("Received chunk: " + Convert.ToString(bd.NumBytes) + " bytes");
        fac.FileWriteBd(bd,0,0);
        bd.Clear();
    }

}

fac.FileClose();

Debug.WriteLine("Success.");