Lianja

AI: Diagnosing an Ask Failure

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Demonstrates how to get information about why a request to the AI provider failed. Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

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

loAi = createobject("CkAi")

//  The provider can be "openai", "google", "claude", "deepseek", "xai", or "perplexity".
//  Support for additional providers will be added in future versions of Chilkat.
loAi.Provider = "openai"

//  In this case, we're going to cause an intentional failure by using an invalid API key.
loAi.ApiKey = "sk-11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111k"

//  Choose a model.
loAi.Model = "gpt-5.6-terra"

//  Add a text input.
loAi.InputAddText("Say Hello.")

//  Ask the AI for text output.
llSuccess = loAi.Ask("text")
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    //  If the response status code equals 0, it means the error occurred before receiving the HTTP response.
    //  For this case look at the LastErrorText.
    if (loAi.ResponseStatusCode = 0) then
        ? loAi.LastErrorText
    else
        //  If we received an error response, the status code will be >= 400.
        //  (Ask would've returned .T. if the response status code was 200.)
        ? "Response status code: " + str(loAi.ResponseStatusCode)

        //  The error response (JSON) is available in the LastJsonData.
        loJson = createobject("CkJsonObject")
        loJson.EmitCompact = .F.
        loAi.GetLastJsonData(loJson)
        ? loJson.Emit()

        //  Sample output:
        //  {
        //    "error": {
        //      "message": "Incorrect API key provided: sk-11111***************************************111k. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.",
        //      "type": "invalid_request_error",
        //      "param": null,
        //      "code": "invalid_api_key"
        //    }
        //  }
    endif

    release loAi
    release loJson
    return
endif

//  Get the text response.
loSbResponse = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
loAi.GetOutputTextSb(loSbResponse)
? loSbResponse.GetAsString()


release loAi
release loJson
release loSbResponse