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REST Send multipart/form-data

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Demonstrates how to send a multipart/form-data HTTP request.

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL lnBTls
LOCAL lnPort
LOCAL lnBAutoReconnect
LOCAL loSbHtml
LOCAL loJpgBytes
LOCAL lcResponseBody

lnSuccess = 0

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

loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rest')

*  Connect to the destination web server.
lnBTls = 1
lnPort = 443
lnBAutoReconnect = 1
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("www.somewebserver.com",lnPort,lnBTls,lnBAutoReconnect)

*  This example will send the following multipart/form-data request.
*  The Content-Length is automatically computed and added by Chilkat.
*  It will be different than what is shown here.
*  The boundary string is also generated by Chilkat and will be different
*  than shown below.

*  	POST /some_path HTTP/1.1
*  	Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------735323031399963166993862150
*  	Content-Length: 834
*  
*  	-----------------------------735323031399963166993862150
*  	Content-Disposition: form-data; name="text1"
*  
*  	text 123 abc
*  	-----------------------------735323031399963166993862150
*  	Content-Disposition: form-data; name="text2"
*  
*  	xyz
*  	-----------------------------735323031399963166993862150
*  	Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file1"; filename="a.txt"
*  	Content-Type: text/plain
*  
*  	Content of a.txt.
*  
*  	-----------------------------735323031399963166993862150
*  	Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file2"; filename="a.html"
*  	Content-Type: text/html
*  
*  	<!DOCTYPE html><title>Content of a.html.</title>
*  
*  	-----------------------------735323031399963166993862150
*  	Content-Disposition: form-data; name="file3"; filename="starfish.jpg"
*  	Content-Type: image/jpeg
*  
*  	binary data goes here
*  	-----------------------------735323031399963166993862150--

*  Set the Content-Type for the topmost MIME part.
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Type","multipart/form-data")

*  Specify each part of the request.
loRest.PartSelector = "1"
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",'form-data; name="text1"')
loRest.SetMultipartBodyString("text 123 abc")

loRest.PartSelector = "2"
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",'form-data; name="text2"')
loRest.SetMultipartBodyString("xyz")

loRest.PartSelector = "3"
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",'form-data; name="file1"; filename="a.txt"')
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/plain")
loRest.SetMultipartBodyString("Content of a.txt.")

loRest.PartSelector = "4"
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",'form-data; name="file2"; filename="a.html"')
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Type","text/html")
loSbHtml = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loSbHtml.LoadFile("qa_data/html/a.html","utf-8")
loRest.SetMultipartBodySb(loSbHtml)

loRest.PartSelector = "5"
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Disposition",'form-data; name="file3"; filename="starfish.jpg"')
loRest.AddHeader("Content-Type","image/jpeg")
loJpgBytes = CreateObject('Chilkat.BinData')
loJpgBytes.LoadFile("qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg")
loRest.SetMultipartBodyBd(loJpgBytes)

lcResponseBody = loRest.FullRequestMultipart("POST","/some_path")
IF (loRest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loSbHtml
    RELEASE loJpgBytes
    CANCEL
ENDIF

*  ...
*  ...

*  Clear the REST object for any subsequent requests..
loRest.ClearAllHeaders()
loRest.ClearAllParts()
loRest.PartSelector = ""

RELEASE loRest
RELEASE loSbHtml
RELEASE loJpgBytes