(Go) Firebase GET - Reading Data

Demonstrates how to read parts of a Firebase JSON database. The data used in this example is at Chilkat Firebase Pigs Database, and is shown here:

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    // Demonstrates how to read parts of a Firebase JSON database.

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

    // This example assumes a JWT authentication token, if required, has been previously obtained.
    // See Get Firebase Access Token from JSON Service Account Private Key for sample code.

    var success bool

    // Load the previously obtained Firebase access token into a string.
    fac := chilkat.NewFileAccess()
    accessToken := fac.ReadEntireTextFile("qa_data/tokens/firebaseToken.txt","utf-8")
    if fac.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
        fmt.Println(fac.LastErrorText())
        fac.DisposeFileAccess()
        return
    }

    rest := chilkat.NewRest()

    // Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet).
    // Once connected, any number of requests may be sent.  It is not necessary to explicitly
    // call Connect before each request.  
    success = rest.Connect("chilkat.firebaseio.com",443,true,true)
    if success != true {
        fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
        fac.DisposeFileAccess()
        rest.DisposeRest()
        return
    }

    // If authentication is required...
    authGoogle := chilkat.NewAuthGoogle()
    authGoogle.SetAccessToken(*accessToken)
    rest.SetAuthGoogle(authGoogle)

    // Chilkat's sample data (pig-rescue data) is publicly readable at: https://chilkat.firebaseio.com/.json

    // Let's get the animals with the shallow parameter so we can see how many pigs exist.
    jsonResponse := rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/pig-rescue/animal.json?shallow=true")
    if rest.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
        fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
        fac.DisposeFileAccess()
        rest.DisposeRest()
        authGoogle.DisposeAuthGoogle()
        return
    }

    // The JSON returned should look like this:  
    // {"-KI3bD-FU_Dake7sYOiP":true,"-KI3bD-FU_Dake7sYOiT":true,"-KI3bD-FU_Dake7sYOiS":true,"-KI3bD-FU_Dake7sYOiU":true,"-KI3bD-FU_Dake7sYOiV":true,"-KI3bD-FU_Dake7sYOiR":true,"-KI3bD-FU_Dake7sYOiQ":true}
    fmt.Println(*jsonResponse)

    // Parse the response so we can iterate over each pig in the database..
    piggyPath := chilkat.NewStringBuilder()
    shallow := chilkat.NewJsonObject()
    piggyData := chilkat.NewJsonObject()
    shallow.Load(*jsonResponse)
    count := shallow.Size()
    i := 0
    for i < count {

        // Get each individual pig's data.
        piggyPath.Clear()
        piggyPath.Append("/pig-rescue/animal/")
        piggyPath.Append(*shallow.NameAt(i))
        piggyPath.Append("/.json")

        piggyJson := rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",*piggyPath.GetAsString())
        if rest.LastMethodSuccess() != true {
            fmt.Println(rest.LastErrorText())
            fac.DisposeFileAccess()
            rest.DisposeRest()
            authGoogle.DisposeAuthGoogle()
            piggyPath.DisposeStringBuilder()
            shallow.DisposeJsonObject()
            piggyData.DisposeJsonObject()
            return
        }

        // Show this piggy's data...
        // An example of one pig's data is shown here:
        // {"birth":"February, 1998","from":"Middle Ave.","gender":"F","in-date":"January, 2000",
        //   "name":"Molly II","picture":{"caption":"Molly in the Pasture","description":"Black pig","file":"molly_th.jpg"},
        //   "species":"pot belly pig","type":"Cathy's Herd"}
        fmt.Println("---- ", i, " ----")
        fmt.Println(*piggyJson)

        // Let's get the pig's name, and the caption of the picture.
        piggyData.Load(*piggyJson)
        fmt.Println("name: ", *piggyData.StringOf("name"))
        fmt.Println("caption: ", *piggyData.StringOf("picture.caption"))

        i = i + 1
    }

    // Note: In many of the Chilkat examples, you may notice strange ways
    // of doing something that should be simpler and shorter.  For example,
    // building the piggyPath (above) could've been written differently,
    // with some simple string concatenation.
    // 
    // The reason is that the Chilkat examples are written in a 
    // proprietary "example code" scripting language,
    // and then automatically generated to each of the different programming
    // languages you see on example-code.com.  The code generation is
    // limited in what it can do.  For example, string concatentation
    // is not yet a feature of the "example code" scripting language (as of May 2016), 
    // and therefore you won't see the use of a programming language's string
    // concatentation operators in any example.  
    // 

    fac.DisposeFileAccess()
    rest.DisposeRest()
    authGoogle.DisposeAuthGoogle()
    piggyPath.DisposeStringBuilder()
    shallow.DisposeJsonObject()
    piggyData.DisposeJsonObject()