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Amazon Translate Text

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Demonstrates how to use the AWS Translate service to translate text from one language to another. PowerShell

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

$success = $false

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

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

$authAws = New-Object Chilkat.AuthAws
$authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
$authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
$authAws.Region = "us-west-2"
$authAws.ServiceName = "translate"
$rest.SetAuthAws($authAws)

# URL: https://translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
$bTls = $true
$port = 443
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $("ConnectFailReason: " + $rest.ConnectFailReason)
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Translate text from English to German
$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.UpdateString("SourceLanguageCode","en")
$json.UpdateString("TargetLanguageCode","de")
$json.UpdateString("Text","This is the text to be translated")

$rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/x-amz-json-1.1")
$rest.AddHeader("X-Amz-Target","AWSShineFrontendService_20170701.TranslateText")

$sbRequestBody = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$json.EmitSb($sbRequestBody)
$sbResponseBody = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",$sbRequestBody,$sbResponseBody)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$respStatusCode = $rest.ResponseStatusCode
if ($respStatusCode -ge 400) {
    $("Response Status Code = " + $respStatusCode)
    $("Response Header:")
    $($rest.ResponseHeader)
    $("Response Body:")
    $($sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
    exit
}

$jsonResponse = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$jsonResponse.LoadSb($sbResponseBody)
$jsonResponse.EmitCompact = $false

$($jsonResponse.Emit())

# {
#   "SourceLanguageCode": "en",
#   "TargetLanguageCode": "de",
#   "TranslatedText": "Dies ist der zu �bersetzende Text"
# }

$($jsonResponse.StringOf("TranslatedText"))