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Amazon Translate Text

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Demonstrates how to use the AWS Translate service to translate text from one language to another.

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Lazarus Pascal
program ChilkatDemo;

// Demonstrates using the Chilkat Pascal wrapper via the C bridge DLL.
// Builds as a console application under Lazarus (FPC) or Delphi.

{$IFDEF FPC}
  {$MODE DELPHI}
{$ENDIF}
{$APPTYPE CONSOLE}

uses
  {$IFDEF UNIX}
  cthreads,
  {$ENDIF}
  SysUtils,
  CkDllLoader,
  Chilkat.AuthAws,
  Chilkat.Rest,
  Chilkat.JsonObject,
  Chilkat.StringBuilder;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

procedure RunDemo;
var
  success: Boolean;
  rest: TRest;
  authAws: TAuthAws;
  bTls: Boolean;
  port: Integer;
  bAutoReconnect: Boolean;
  json: TJsonObject;
  sbRequestBody: TStringBuilder;
  sbResponseBody: TStringBuilder;
  respStatusCode: Integer;
  jsonResponse: TJsonObject;

begin
  success := False;

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

  rest := TRest.Create;

  authAws := TAuthAws.Create;
  authAws.AccessKey := 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY';
  authAws.SecretKey := 'AWS_SECRET_KEY';
  authAws.Region := 'us-west-2';
  authAws.ServiceName := 'translate';
  rest.SetAuthAws(authAws);

  //  URL: https://translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
  bTls := True;
  port := 443;
  bAutoReconnect := True;
  success := rest.Connect('translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com',port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
  if (success <> True) then
    begin
      WriteLn('ConnectFailReason: ' + rest.ConnectFailReason);
      WriteLn(rest.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;

  //  Translate text from English to German
  json := TJsonObject.Create;
  json.UpdateString('SourceLanguageCode','en');
  json.UpdateString('TargetLanguageCode','de');
  json.UpdateString('Text','This is the text to be translated');

  rest.AddHeader('Content-Type','application/x-amz-json-1.1');
  rest.AddHeader('X-Amz-Target','AWSShineFrontendService_20170701.TranslateText');

  sbRequestBody := TStringBuilder.Create;
  json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody);
  sbResponseBody := TStringBuilder.Create;
  success := rest.FullRequestSb('POST','/',sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody);
  if (success <> True) then
    begin
      WriteLn(rest.LastErrorText);
      Exit;
    end;
  respStatusCode := rest.ResponseStatusCode;
  if (respStatusCode >= 400) then
    begin
      WriteLn('Response Status Code = ' + respStatusCode);
      WriteLn('Response Header:');
      WriteLn(rest.ResponseHeader);
      WriteLn('Response Body:');
      WriteLn(sbResponseBody.GetAsString());
      Exit;
    end;

  jsonResponse := TJsonObject.Create;
  jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody);
  jsonResponse.EmitCompact := False;

  WriteLn(jsonResponse.Emit());

  //  {
  //    "SourceLanguageCode": "en",
  //    "TargetLanguageCode": "de",
  //    "TranslatedText": "Dies ist der zu �bersetzende Text"
  //  }

  WriteLn(jsonResponse.StringOf('TranslatedText'));


  rest.Free;
  authAws.Free;
  json.Free;
  sbRequestBody.Free;
  sbResponseBody.Free;
  jsonResponse.Free;

end;

// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

begin

  try
    RunDemo;
  except
    on E: Exception do
      WriteLn('Unhandled exception: ', E.ClassName, ': ', E.Message);
  end;

  WriteLn;
  {$IFDEF MSWINDOWS}
  WriteLn('Press Enter to exit...');
  ReadLn;
  {$ENDIF}
end.