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Glacier Delete All Archives in a Vault

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Iterates over a vault inventory retrieval and deletes each archive.

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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

# Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
$bTls = $true
$port = 443
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)

# Provide AWS credentials.
$authAws = New-Object Chilkat.AuthAws
$authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
$authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
$authAws.ServiceName = "glacier"
$authAws.Region = "us-west-2"

$success = $rest.SetAuthAws($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 Retrieve Job Output Reference Documentation
# 
$rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

$sbResponseBody = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output",$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
}

# Success is indicated by a 200 response status.
$("response status code = " + $respStatusCode)

# The inventory retrieval job output is in CSV format.
$("job output:")
$($sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
$("--")

# The CSV has these fields:  ArchiveId,ArchiveDescription,CreationDate,Size,SHA256TreeHash
$csv = New-Object Chilkat.Csv
$csv.HasColumnNames = $true
$csv.LoadFromString($sbResponseBody.GetAsString())

# Iterate over the results and delete each archive from the vault.
$i = 0
$numRows = $csv.NumRows
while ($i -lt $numRows) {

    $archiveId = $csv.GetCellByName($i,"ArchiveId")
    $("Deleting ArchiveId: " + $archiveId)
    $rest.AddPathParam("ArchiveID",$archiveId)
    $success = $rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("DELETE","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/archives/ArchiveID",$sbResponseBody)
    if ($success -ne $true) {
        $($rest.LastErrorText)
        exit
    }

    $respStatusCode = $rest.ResponseStatusCode

    # Success is indicated by a 204 response status with an empty response body.
    # A 404 resonse indicates the archive was likely already deleted.
    $("response status code = " + $respStatusCode)

    $i = $i + 1
}