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Download File from Dropbox

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Downloads a file from Dropbox.

Chilkat Visual FoxPro Downloads

Visual FoxPro
LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loBd
LOCAL lcApiResult
LOCAL loJsonResult
LOCAL lnSize
LOCAL lcRev
LOCAL lcClientModified
LOCAL loCkdt
LOCAL lnBLocalTime
LOCAL loDt

lnSuccess = 0

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

* A Dropbox access token should have been previously obtained.
* Dropbox access tokens do not expire.
* See Dropbox Access Token.

loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rest')

* Connect to Dropbox
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("content.dropboxapi.com",443,1,1)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Add request headers.
loRest.AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN")

* The download "parameters" are contained in JSON passed in an HTTP request header.
* This is the JSON indicating the file to be downloaded:
* { 
*    "path": "/Homework/lit/hamlet.xml",
* }

loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.AppendString("path","/Homework/lit/hamlet.xml")
loRest.AddHeader("Dropbox-API-Arg",loJson.Emit())

loBd = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')
lnSuccess = loRest.FullRequestNoBodyBd("POST","/2/files/download",loBd)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loBd
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* When successful, Dropbox responds with a 200 response code.
IF (loRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) THEN
    * Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    ? "response status code = " + STR(loRest.ResponseStatusCode)
    ? "response status text = " + loRest.ResponseStatusText
    ? "response header: " + loRest.ResponseHeader
    ? "response body (if any): " + loBd.GetString("utf-8")
    ? "---"
    ? "LastRequestStartLine: " + loRest.LastRequestStartLine
    ? "LastRequestHeader: " + loRest.LastRequestHeader
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loBd
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* The file was downloaded into bd.
* Save it to the filesystem.
lnSuccess = loBd.WriteFile("c:/temp/qa_output/hamlet.xml")

* Information about the downloaded file is also available as JSON in a response header.
* The "dropbox-api-result" response header contains the information.  For example:
lcApiResult = loRest.ResponseHdrByName("dropbox-api-result")
? lcApiResult

* In this case, the pretty-formatted dropbox-api-result JSON looks like this:
* { 
*   "name": "hamlet.xml",
*   "path_lower": "/homework/lit/hamlet.xml",
*   "path_display": "/Homework/lit/hamlet.xml",
*   "id": "id:74FkdeNuyKAAAAAAAAAAAQ",
*   "client_modified": "2016-06-02T23:19:00Z",
*   "server_modified": "2016-06-02T23:19:00Z",
*   "rev": "9482db15f",
*   "size": 279658
* }

* Load the JSON, pretty-print it, and demonstrate how to get some values...
loJsonResult = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJsonResult.EmitCompact = 0
loJsonResult.Load(lcApiResult)
* Show the JSON pretty-printed...
? loJsonResult.Emit()

* Sample code to get data from the JSON response:
lnSize = loJsonResult.IntOf("size")
? "size = " + STR(lnSize)

lcRev = loJsonResult.StringOf("rev")
? "rev = " + lcRev

lcClientModified = loJsonResult.StringOf("client_modified")
loCkdt = CreateObject('Chilkat.CkDateTime')
loCkdt.SetFromTimestamp(lcClientModified)
lnBLocalTime = 1
loDt = CreateObject('Chilkat.DtObj')
loCkdt.ToDtObj(lnBLocalTime,loDt)

? STR(loDt.Day) + "/" + STR(loDt.Month) + "/" + STR(loDt.Year) + " " + STR(loDt.Hour) + ":" + STR(loDt.Minute)

RELEASE loRest
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loBd
RELEASE loJsonResult
RELEASE loCkdt
RELEASE loDt