(Excel) Get Container ACL

Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to get the permissions of a container.

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' Azure Blob Service Example: Get Container ACL
' See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179469.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 200 response status code with an XML response body.
' In this example, we are getting the ACL permissions of the container named "mycontainer".

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

' When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response status code,
' with an XML response body.

If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) 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

' Load the XML response for parsing.
' An example of the response XML is shown below.
Dim xml As Chilkat.Xml
Set xml = Chilkat.NewXml
success = xml.LoadXml(responseStr)

Debug.Print xml.GetXml()

' Use the ChilkatPath method to get various pieces of information out
' of the XML.  For example:

Debug.Print "Id = "; xml.ChilkatPath("SignedIdentifier|Id|*")

startTimeStr = xml.ChilkatPath("SignedIdentifier|AccessPolicy|Start|*")
Debug.Print "Start Time = "; startTimeStr

' The date/time string can be loaded into a CkDateTime object for 
' access to individual parts, or conversion to other formats.
Dim dateTime As Chilkat.CkDateTime
Set dateTime = Chilkat.NewCkDateTime
success = dateTime.SetFromTimestamp(startTimeStr)

' For example..

bLocalTime = True

Set dt = dateTime.GetDtObj(bLocalTime)
Debug.Print dt.Year; "/"; dt.Month; "/"; dt.Day

' <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
' <SignedIdentifiers>
'     <SignedIdentifier>
'         <Id>46KdrjGoh6bEJVbbLAKSVDLH3bBcjPKn</Id>
'         <AccessPolicy>
'             <Start>2016-05-04T22:10:49.0000000Z</Start>
'             <Expiry>2017-05-04T22:10:49.0000000Z</Expiry>
'             <Permission>rwd</Permission>
'         </AccessPolicy>
'     </SignedIdentifier>
' </SignedIdentifiers>