(Objective-C) Azure Storage: Upload Binary Data to Block Blob

Sample code to upload binary bytes to a block blob in Azure Cloud Storage. This creates the block blob, or replaces an existing block blob.

Note: The maximum size of a block blob created by uploading in a single step is 64MB. For larger files, the upload must be broken up into blocks. There is another Chilkat example for that..

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#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <CkoAuthAzureStorage.h>
#import <CkoFileAccess.h>
#import <NSString.h>

// Azure Blob Service Example: Upload binary bytes to a block blob.
// This creates a new block blob or replaces an existing one in its entirety.
// See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179451.aspx

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

CkoRest *rest = [[CkoRest alloc] init];

// Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
BOOL bTls = YES;
int port = 443;
BOOL bAutoReconnect = YES;
// In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
BOOL success = [rest Connect: @"chilkat.blob.core.windows.net" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: port] tls: bTls autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
CkoAuthAzureStorage *azAuth = [[CkoAuthAzureStorage alloc] init];
azAuth.AccessKey = @"AZURE_ACCESS_KEY";
// The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
azAuth.Account = @"chilkat";
azAuth.Scheme = @"SharedKey";
azAuth.Service = @"Blob";
// This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
azAuth.XMsVersion = @"2021-08-06";
success = [rest SetAuthAzureStorage: azAuth];

// Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
// headers: Content-Length, x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
// are automatically set by Chilkat.

// IMPORTANT: Make sure to set the x-ms-blob-type header:
success = [rest AddHeader: @"x-ms-blob-type" value: @"BlockBlob"];

// For this example, we'll just load a JPG file into memory..
NSData binaryData;
CkoFileAccess *fac = [[CkoFileAccess alloc] init];
binaryData = [fac ReadEntireFile: @"qa_data/jpg/starfish.jpg"];

// Note: The maximum size of a block blob created by uploading in a single step is 64MB.  
// For larger files, the upload must be broken up into blocks.  There is another Chilkat example for that..
NSString *responseStr = [rest FullRequestBinary: @"PUT" uriPath: @"/mycontainer/starfish.jpg" bodyBytes: binaryData];
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 201 response status code,
// with no response body.

if ([rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue] != 201) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    NSLog(@"%@%d",@"response status code = ",[rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue]);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"response status text = ",rest.ResponseStatusText);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"response header: ",rest.ResponseHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"response body (if any): ",responseStr);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"---");
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"LastRequestStartLine: ",rest.LastRequestStartLine);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"LastRequestHeader: ",rest.LastRequestHeader);
    return;
}

NSLog(@"%@",@"Success.");