(Excel) Glacier Initiate Inventory Retrieval Job

Demonstrates how to initiate an inventory retrieval job to get a list of archives from the examplevault vault. The Format set to CSV in the body of the request indicates that the inventory is returned in CSV format.

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

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' 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 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.
Dim authAws As Chilkat.AuthAws
Set authAws = Chilkat.NewAuthAws
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 Initiate Job Post Reference Documentation
' 
success = rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

' The body of our request will contain this JSON:
' {
'   "Type": "inventory-retrieval",
'   "Description": "My inventory job",
'   "Format": "CSV",  
'   "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111111111111:Glacier-InventoryRetrieval-topic-Example"
' }

' Use this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
' Generate Code to Create JSON

Dim json As Chilkat.JsonObject
Set json = Chilkat.NewJsonObject
success = json.UpdateString("Type","inventory-retrieval")
success = json.UpdateString("Description","My inventory job")
success = json.UpdateString("Format","CSV")
' The SNSTopic is optional.  If included, then notification is sent to the SNS topic when the job is complete.
' This example will omit the SNSTopic.

Dim sbRequestBody As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbRequestBody = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
Dim sbResponseBody As Chilkat.StringBuilder
Set sbResponseBody = Chilkat.NewStringBuilder

' Start an inventory retrieval job for the vault named "chilkat".
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> True) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If


respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Status Code = "; respStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If

' Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
Debug.Print "response status code = "; respStatusCode

' If successful, the response header looks like this.
' The Location and x-amz-job-id are two items of information we may wish to save..

' HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
' x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
' Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 
' Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault/jobs/HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
' x-amz-job-id: HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
' 


jobId = rest.ResponseHdrByName("x-amz-job-id")
Debug.Print "x-amz-job-id = "; jobId


location = rest.ResponseHdrByName("Location")
Debug.Print "Location = "; location