PowerBuilder

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). PowerBuilder

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Http
oleobject loo_Bd
integer li_StatusCode

li_Success = 0

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

loo_Http = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Http.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Http")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Http
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
loo_Http.KeepResponseBody = 1

// Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
// See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
loo_Http.AuthToken = "BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"

loo_Http.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
loo_Bd = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Bd.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.BinData")

li_Success = loo_Http.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",loo_Bd)
li_StatusCode = loo_Http.LastStatus
if li_Success = 0 then
    if li_StatusCode = 0 then
        // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        Write-Debug loo_Http.LastErrorText
    else
        // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        Write-Debug "Response status code: " + string(li_StatusCode)
        // Examine the response body.
        Write-Debug "Response body:"
        Write-Debug loo_Http.LastResponseBody
    end if

    Write-Debug "Download failed."

else
    Write-Debug "Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data."

    Write-Debug "Number of bytes: " + string(loo_Bd.NumBytes)
end if



destroy loo_Http
destroy loo_Bd