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Referencing a Pre-Uploaded Image File by file_id in an AI Request

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Currently, OpenAI is the only AI provider that supports referencing a pre-uploaded image in a request for text generation.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loAi
LOCAL lcFile_id
LOCAL loSbResponse

lnSuccess = 0

lnSuccess = 0

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

loAi = CreateObject('Chilkat.Ai')

* OpenAI is currently the only AI provider that supports referencing a pre-uploaded image by file_id
* in a request for text generation.
loAi.Provider = "openai"

* Use your provider's API key.
loAi.ApiKey = "MY_API_KEY"

* Choose a model.
loAi.Model = "gpt-5-mini"

* See the following example showing how to upload a file
* Upload an Image File to an AI Provider

* Use the file_id of the pre-uploaded file.
lcFile_id = "file-5CnBeuFasqNcAfti3cx4Fe"
loAi.InputAddImageFileId(lcFile_id,"application/json")

loAi.InputAddText("What is in this image?")

* Ask the AI for text output.
lnSuccess = loAi.Ask("text")
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loAi.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loAi
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Get the text response.
loSbResponse = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loAi.GetOutputTextSb(loSbResponse)
? loSbResponse.GetAsString()

RELEASE loAi
RELEASE loSbResponse