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Upload File in Blocks (with Content-MD5 header) and Commit the Block List

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Demonstrates how to upload a file in blocks and then commit the block list. This example includes a Content-MD5 header for each block.

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<?php

include("chilkat.php");

$success = false;

// Azure Blob Service Example: Upload a file in blocks, and then commit the block list.
// See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd135726.aspx

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

$rest = new CkRest();

// Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
$bTls = true;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = true;
// In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
$success = $rest->Connect('chilkat.blob.core.windows.net',$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != true) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

// Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
$azAuth = new CkAuthAzureStorage();
$azAuth->put_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->put_Account('chilkat');
$azAuth->put_Scheme('SharedKey');
$azAuth->put_Service('Blob');
// This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
$azAuth->put_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.

// As the blocks are uploaded, we'll keep an XML block list for the subsequent commit..
$xml = new CkXml();
$xml->put_Tag('BlockList');

// Any type of file can be uploaded in this way.  It can a text file, binary file, anything...
// This example will upload an XML file that is approximately 275K in size.  It can be downloaded
// at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml
$fac = new CkFileAccess();
$success = $fac->OpenForRead('qa_data/xml/hamlet.xml');
// Assuming success for the example..

// We'll upload in 16K blocks (normally a program would upload in larger block sizes than this,
// but this is just an example...)
$blockSize = 16384;

// How many 16K blocks?  (Including 1 for the last partial block)
$numBlocks = $fac->GetNumBlocks($blockSize);

$crypt = new CkCrypt2();
$crypt->put_HashAlgorithm('md5');

$sbResponseBody = new CkStringBuilder();
$uriPath = new CkStringBuilder();

$dataBlock = new CkBinData();

$i = 0;
while ($i < $numBlocks) {

    $dataBlock->Clear();
    $success = $fac->ReadBlockBd($i,$blockSize,$dataBlock);
    if ($success == false) {
        print $fac->lastErrorText() . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    // Generate a base64 block ID.  
    // (Chilkat provides a helper method named GenBlockId to make this easy)
    // A pre-base64 encoded block ID length of 4 is sufficient in this case because
    // this file certainly won't have more than 99,999 blocks..
    $blockId = $fac->genBlockId($i,4,'base64');

    // Add this blockId to the list of blocks to be committed.
    $xml->NewChild2('Latest',$blockId);

    // Build the URI path
    $uriPath->Clear();
    $success = $uriPath->Append('/mycontainer/hamlet.xml?comp=block&blockId=');
    $success = $uriPath->Append($blockId);

    $contentMd5 = $crypt->hashBdENC($dataBlock);
    $rest->AddHeader('Content-MD5',$contentMd5);

    // Upload this block..
    $sbResponseBody->Clear();
    $success = $rest->FullRequestBd('PUT',$uriPath->getAsString(),$dataBlock,$sbResponseBody);
    if ($success == false) {
        print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    // Verify that we received a 201 status code.
    if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 201) {
        // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
        print 'response status code = ' . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\n";
        print 'response status text = ' . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\n";
        print 'response header: ' . $rest->responseHeader() . "\n";
        print 'response body (if any): ' . $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\n";
        print '---' . "\n";
        print 'LastRequestStartLine: ' . $rest->lastRequestStartLine() . "\n";
        print 'LastRequestHeader: ' . $rest->lastRequestHeader() . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    $i = $i + 1;
}

$fac->FileClose();

// Now commit the blocks.
// Let's have a look at the XML that will commit the blocks:
$xmlStr = $xml->getXml();
print $xmlStr . "\n";

// The XML will look like this:

// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
// <BlockList>
//     <Latest>MDAwMA==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwMQ==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwMg==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwMw==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwNA==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwNQ==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwNg==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwNw==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwOA==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAwOQ==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxMA==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxMQ==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxMg==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxMw==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxNA==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxNQ==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxNg==</Latest>
//     <Latest>MDAxNw==</Latest>
// </BlockList>

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
// IMPORTANT: Remove the Content-MD5 header previously set in the loop above.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
$rest->RemoveHeader('Content-MD5');

// Send the PUT Block List...
$responseStr = $rest->fullRequestString('PUT','/mycontainer/hamlet.xml?comp=blocklist',$xmlStr);
if ($rest->get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 201) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print 'response status code = ' . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\n";
    print 'response status text = ' . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\n";
    print 'response header: ' . $rest->responseHeader() . "\n";
    print 'response body (if any): ' . $responseStr . "\n";
    print '---' . "\n";
    print 'LastRequestStartLine: ' . $rest->lastRequestStartLine() . "\n";
    print 'LastRequestHeader: ' . $rest->lastRequestHeader() . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Success.' . "\n";

?>