(PowerBuilder) HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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integer li_rc
oleobject loo_Http
string ls_ResponseText
oleobject loo_Json

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

loo_Http = create oleobject
// Use "Chilkat_9_5_0.Http" for versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0
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

// Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
// Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
loo_Http.AuthToken = "Your access token"

// Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
ls_ResponseText = loo_Http.QuickGetStr("https://www.example.com/something")
if loo_Http.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    // This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
    Write-Debug loo_Http.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Http
    return
end if

// If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
// the response body.
Write-Debug "Response status code = " + string(loo_Http.LastStatus)
if loo_Http.LastStatus <> 200 then
    // Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.
    Write-Debug ls_ResponseText
    destroy loo_Http
    return
end if

// If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
// if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
loo_Json = create oleobject
// Use "Chilkat_9_5_0.JsonObject" for versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0
li_rc = loo_Json.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")

loo_Json.EmitCompact = 1
loo_Json.Load(ls_ResponseText)
Write-Debug loo_Json.Emit()

// Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
// Generate Parsing Code from JSON

// ...
// ...


destroy loo_Http
destroy loo_Json