Perl

Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file). Perl

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();
$http->put_KeepResponseBody(1);

# Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
# See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
$http->put_AuthToken("BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN");

$http->put_FollowRedirects(1);

# The file is specified by the file ID.
# In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
# The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
$bd = chilkat::CkBinData->new();
$success = $http->DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",$bd);
$statusCode = $http->get_LastStatus();
if ($success == 0) {
    if ($statusCode == 0) {
        # Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    }
    else {
        # We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        print "Response status code: " . $statusCode . "\r\n";
        # Examine the response body.
        print "Response body:" . "\r\n";
        print $http->lastResponseBody() . "\r\n";
    }

    print "Download failed." . "\r\n";

}
else {
    print "Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data." . "\r\n";

    print "Number of bytes: " . $bd->get_NumBytes() . "\r\n";
}