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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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integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Rest
integer li_BTls
integer li_Port
integer li_BAutoReconnect
oleobject loo_AuthAws
oleobject loo_Json
oleobject loo_SbRequestBody
oleobject loo_SbResponseBody
integer li_RespStatusCode
string ls_JobId
string ls_Location

li_Success = 0

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

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

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
li_BTls = 1
li_Port = 443
li_BAutoReconnect = 1
li_Success = loo_Rest.Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",li_Port,li_BTls,li_BAutoReconnect)

// Provide AWS credentials.
loo_AuthAws = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_AuthAws.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.AuthAws")

loo_AuthAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
loo_AuthAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
loo_AuthAws.ServiceName = "glacier"
loo_AuthAws.Region = "us-west-2"

li_Success = loo_Rest.SetAuthAws(loo_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
// 
loo_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

loo_Json = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Json.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

loo_Json.UpdateString("Type","archive-retrieval")
loo_Json.UpdateString("ArchiveId","ARCHIVE_ID")
loo_Json.UpdateString("Description","My archive description")
// Possible tiers are Bulk, Standard, and Expedited.
loo_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.

loo_SbRequestBody = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbRequestBody.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

loo_Json.EmitSb(loo_SbRequestBody)
loo_SbResponseBody = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbResponseBody.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

// Start an archive retrieval in for the vault named "chilkat".
li_Success = loo_Rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs",loo_SbRequestBody,loo_SbResponseBody)
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Rest
    destroy loo_AuthAws
    destroy loo_Json
    destroy loo_SbRequestBody
    destroy loo_SbResponseBody
    return
end if

li_RespStatusCode = loo_Rest.ResponseStatusCode
if li_RespStatusCode >= 400 then
    Write-Debug "Response Status Code = " + string(li_RespStatusCode)
    Write-Debug "Response Header:"
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.ResponseHeader
    Write-Debug "Response Body:"
    Write-Debug loo_SbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    destroy loo_Rest
    destroy loo_AuthAws
    destroy loo_Json
    destroy loo_SbRequestBody
    destroy loo_SbResponseBody
    return
end if

// Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
Write-Debug "response status code = " + string(li_RespStatusCode)

// 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
// 

ls_JobId = loo_Rest.ResponseHdrByName("x-amz-job-id")
Write-Debug "x-amz-job-id = " + ls_JobId

ls_Location = loo_Rest.ResponseHdrByName("Location")
Write-Debug "Location = " + ls_Location


destroy loo_Rest
destroy loo_AuthAws
destroy loo_Json
destroy loo_SbRequestBody
destroy loo_SbResponseBody