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Amazon Glacier Create Vault

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Demonstrates how to create a new vault with a specified name. The name of the vault must be unique within a region for an AWS account.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

# Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);

# Provide AWS credentials.
$authAws = chilkat::CkAuthAws->new();
$authAws->put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
$authAws->put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");
$authAws->put_ServiceName("glacier");
# The vault we're creating will be in the us-west-2 region.
$authAws->put_Region("us-west-2");

$success = $rest->SetAuthAws($authAws);

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
# can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
# The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
# the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
# if needed.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# 
# For more information, see Glacier Create Vault Reference Documentation
# 
$rest->AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01");

# Create a vault named "chilkat" in my account's us-west-2 region.
$sbResponseBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb("PUT","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat",$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode();
if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print "Response Status Code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";
    print "Response Header:" . "\r\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "Response Body:" . "\r\n";
    print $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Success is indicated by a 201 response status with an empty response body.
print "response status code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";