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Perl

HttpPostJson2Async Example

Demonstrates use of the HttpPostJson2Async method.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

# See PostJson2 Example for the synchronous equivalent of this example.

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

# Sends a POST equivalent to the following CURL command:

# curl -X POST https://sandbox.plaid.com/institutions/get \
#   -H 'content-type: application/json' \
#   -d '{
#     "client_id": String,
#     "secret":String,
#     "count": Number,
#     "offset": Number
#   }'

# Suppress some default headers that would automatically added..
$http->put_AcceptCharset("");
$http->put_UserAgent("");
$http->put_AcceptLanguage("");
$http->put_AllowGzip(0);

$jsonBody = "{\"client_id\": \"PLAID_CLIENT_ID\", \"secret\":\"PLAID_SECRET\", \"count\": 10, \"offset\": 0}";
# task is a Task
$task = $http->PostJson2Async("https://sandbox.plaid.com/institutions/get","application/json",$jsonBody);
if ($http->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Start the background task.
$success = $task->Run();
if (!$success) {
    print $task->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";

    exit;
}

# The application is now free to do anything else
# while the HTTP POST is in progress

# For this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
# check to see if the HTTP POST is finished.  
while ($task->get_Finished() != 1) {
    # Sleep 100 ms.
    $task->SleepMs(100);
}

# When we get here, the task is either finished successfully or not, or was canceled/aborted.

# If the task was "canceled", it was canceled prior to actually starting.  This could
# happen if the task was canceled while waiting in a thread pool queue to be scheduled by Chilkat's
# background thread pool scheduler.  

# If the task was "aborted", it indicates that it was canceled while running in a background thread.  
# The ResultErrorText will likely indicate that the task was aborted.

# If the task "completed", then it ran to completion, but the actual success/failure of the method
# is determined by getting the result of the underlying method call.
# A task status of 7 indicates completion.
if ($task->get_StatusInt() != 7) {
    print "Task did not complete." . "\r\n";
    print "task status: " . $task->status() . "\r\n";

    exit;
}

# When called synchronously, the PostJson2 method returns an HTTP response object,
# unless the method failed and there was no response to be had.
# Check to see if PostJson2 method failed (and thus there is no response object).
if ($task->get_TaskSuccess() == 0) {
    print "The underlying task failed, and there is no HTTP response object." . "\r\n";
    print "The LastErrorText for the underlying method call is:" . "\r\n";
    print $task->resultErrorText() . "\r\n";

    exit;
}

# To get the HTTP response object, create a new instance and load it with the result from the task.
$resp = chilkat::CkHttpResponse->new();
$resp->LoadTaskResult($task);

$statusCode = $resp->get_StatusCode();
print "Response status code = " . $statusCode . "\r\n";

# Examine the JSON response..
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->Load($resp->bodyStr());
$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
print "JSON Response Body:" . "\r\n";
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";