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Glacier Initiate Archive Retrieval Job

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Demonstrates how to initiate an archive retrieval job to download an archive.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

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<?php

$success = 0;

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

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");

// 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 = new COM("Chilkat.AuthAws");
$authAws->AccessKey = 'AWS_ACCESS_KEY';
$authAws->SecretKey = 'AWS_SECRET_KEY';
$authAws->ServiceName = 'glacier';
$authAws->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 Initiate Job Post Reference Documentation
// 
$rest->AddHeader('x-amz-glacier-version','2012-06-01');

// The body of our request will contain this JSON:
// {
//   "Type": "archive-retrieval",
//   "ArchiveId": "NkbByEejwEggmBz2fTHgJrg0XBoDfjP4q6iu87-TjhqG6eGoOY9Z8i1_AUyUsuhPAdTqLHy8pTl5nfCFJmDl2yEZONi5L26Omw12vcs01MNGntHEQL8MBfGlqrEXAMPLEArchiveId"
//   "Description": "My archive description",
//   "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111111111111:Glacier-ArchiveRetrieval-topic-Example",
//   "Tier" : "Bulk"
// }

// Use this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
// Generate Code to Create JSON

$json = new COM("Chilkat.JsonObject");
$json->UpdateString('Type','archive-retrieval');
$json->UpdateString('ArchiveId','ARCHIVE_ID');
$json->UpdateString('Description','My archive description');
// Possible tiers are Bulk, Standard, and Expedited.
$json->UpdateString('Tier','Bulk');
// The SNSTopic is optional.  If included, then notification is sent to the SNS topic when the job is complete.
// This example will omit the SNSTopic.

$sbRequestBody = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
$json->EmitSb($sbRequestBody);
$sbResponseBody = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");

// Start an archive retrieval in for the vault named "chilkat".
$success = $rest->FullRequestSb('POST','/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs',$sbRequestBody,$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

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

// Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
print 'response status code = ' . $respStatusCode . "\n";

// If successful, the response header looks like this.
// The Location and x-amz-job-id are two items of information we may wish to save..

// HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
// x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
// Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 
// Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault/jobs/HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
// x-amz-job-id: HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
// 

$jobId = $rest->responseHdrByName('x-amz-job-id');
print 'x-amz-job-id = ' . $jobId . "\n";

$location = $rest->responseHdrByName('Location');
print 'Location = ' . $location . "\n";

?>