(Excel) Azure Storage: Create Container

Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to create a new container under a specified account.

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' Azure Blob Service Example: Create Container
' See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179468.aspx

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

Dim rest As Chilkat.Rest
Set rest = Chilkat.NewRest

' Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service

bTls = True

port = 443

bAutoReconnect = True
' In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".

success = rest.Connect("chilkat.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
Dim azAuth As Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage
Set azAuth = Chilkat.NewAuthAzureStorage
azAuth.AccessKey = "AZURE_ACCESS_KEY"
' The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
azAuth.Account = "chilkat"
azAuth.Scheme = "SharedKey"
azAuth.Service = "Blob"
' This causes the "x-ms-version: 2020-08-04" header to be automatically added.
azAuth.XMsVersion = "2020-08-04"
success = rest.SetAuthAzureStorage(azAuth)

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

' The expected success response is a 201 response status code with no response body.
' In this example, the container to be created is named "mycontainer".

responseStr = rest.FullRequestNoBody("PUT","/mycontainer?restype=container")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 201 response code,
' with no response body.

' If the container with the same name already exists, then the operation will fail.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 201) Then
    ' Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    Debug.Print "response status code = "; rest.ResponseStatusCode
    Debug.Print "response status text = "; rest.ResponseStatusText
    Debug.Print "response header: "; rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "response body (if any): "; responseStr
    Debug.Print "---"
    Debug.Print "LastRequestStartLine: "; rest.LastRequestStartLine
    Debug.Print "LastRequestHeader: "; rest.LastRequestHeader
    Exit Sub
End If

' If desired, we can examine some of the response headers:
Debug.Print "ETag: "; rest.ResponseHdrByName("ETag")
Debug.Print "Last-Modified: "; rest.ResponseHdrByName("Last-Modified")

Debug.Print "Success: Container Created."