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AI: Diagnosing an Ask Failure

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Demonstrates how to get information about why a request to the AI provider failed. PowerShell

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

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

$ai = New-Object Chilkat.Ai

#  The provider can be "openai", "google", "claude", "deepseek", "xai", or "perplexity".
#  Support for additional providers will be added in future versions of Chilkat.
$ai.Provider = "openai"

#  In this case, we're going to cause an intentional failure by using an invalid API key.
$ai.ApiKey = "sk-11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111k"

#  Choose a model.
$ai.Model = "gpt-5.6-terra"

#  Add a text input.
$ai.InputAddText("Say Hello.")

#  Ask the AI for text output.
$success = $ai.Ask("text")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    #  If the response status code equals 0, it means the error occurred before receiving the HTTP response.
    #  For this case look at the LastErrorText.
    if ($ai.ResponseStatusCode -eq 0) {
        $($ai.LastErrorText)
    }
    else {
        #  If we received an error response, the status code will be >= 400.
        #  (Ask would've returned $true if the response status code was 200.)
        $("Response status code: " + $ai.ResponseStatusCode)

        #  The error response (JSON) is available in the LastJsonData.
        $json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
        $json.EmitCompact = $false
        $ai.GetLastJsonData($json)
        $($json.Emit())

        #  Sample output:
        #  {
        #    "error": {
        #      "message": "Incorrect API key provided: sk-11111***************************************111k. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.",
        #      "type": "invalid_request_error",
        #      "param": null,
        #      "code": "invalid_api_key"
        #    }
        #  }
    }

    exit
}

#  Get the text response.
$sbResponse = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$ai.GetOutputTextSb($sbResponse)
$($sbResponse.GetAsString())