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Delphi ActiveX

Amazon Translate Text

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Demonstrates how to use the AWS Translate service to translate text from one language to another.

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Delphi ActiveX
uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, Chilkat_TLB;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Integer;
rest: TChilkatRest;
authAws: TChilkatAuthAws;
bTls: Integer;
port: Integer;
bAutoReconnect: Integer;
json: TChilkatJsonObject;
sbRequestBody: TChilkatStringBuilder;
sbResponseBody: TChilkatStringBuilder;
respStatusCode: Integer;
jsonResponse: TChilkatJsonObject;

begin
success := 0;

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

rest := TChilkatRest.Create(Self);

authAws := TChilkatAuthAws.Create(Self);
authAws.AccessKey := 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY';
authAws.SecretKey := 'AWS_SECRET_KEY';
authAws.Region := 'us-west-2';
authAws.ServiceName := 'translate';
rest.SetAuthAws(authAws.ControlInterface);

// URL: https://translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
bTls := 1;
port := 443;
bAutoReconnect := 1;
success := rest.Connect('translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com',port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('ConnectFailReason: ' + IntToStr(rest.ConnectFailReason));
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

// Translate text from English to German
json := TChilkatJsonObject.Create(Self);
json.UpdateString('SourceLanguageCode','en');
json.UpdateString('TargetLanguageCode','de');
json.UpdateString('Text','This is the text to be translated');

rest.AddHeader('Content-Type','application/x-amz-json-1.1');
rest.AddHeader('X-Amz-Target','AWSShineFrontendService_20170701.TranslateText');

sbRequestBody := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);
json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody.ControlInterface);
sbResponseBody := TChilkatStringBuilder.Create(Self);
success := rest.FullRequestSb('POST','/',sbRequestBody.ControlInterface,sbResponseBody.ControlInterface);
if (success <> 1) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;
respStatusCode := rest.ResponseStatusCode;
if (respStatusCode >= 400) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Status Code = ' + IntToStr(respStatusCode));
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Header:');
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.ResponseHeader);
    Memo1.Lines.Add('Response Body:');
    Memo1.Lines.Add(sbResponseBody.GetAsString());
    Exit;
  end;

jsonResponse := TChilkatJsonObject.Create(Self);
jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody.ControlInterface);
jsonResponse.EmitCompact := 0;

Memo1.Lines.Add(jsonResponse.Emit());

// {
//   "SourceLanguageCode": "en",
//   "TargetLanguageCode": "de",
//   "TranslatedText": "Dies ist der zu �bersetzende Text"
// }

Memo1.Lines.Add(jsonResponse.StringOf('TranslatedText'));
end;