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Glacier Download Archive

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Demonstrates how to download an Amazon Glacier archive. Downloading a Glacier archive is a two step process. First an archive retrieval job is initiated. After it completes, the job output is downloaded (i.e. the archive contents are downloaded.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

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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")

# To download an archive, we'll make several method calls:
# 1) Send the HTTPS GET request.
# 2) Get the response body.
# 3) If the response status code indicates success, stream the response body (i.e the archive data) to a file.
# 4) If the response status code indicates an error, get the JSON error response.

# Send the GET request.
$success = $rest.SendReqNoBody("GET","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output")
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

# Read the response header.
$responseStatusCode = $rest.ReadResponseHeader()
if ($responseStatusCode -lt 0) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$("Response status code = " + $responseStatusCode)

# We expect a 200 response status if the archive data is coming.
# Otherwise, we'll get a JSON response body with an error message(or no response body).
if ($responseStatusCode -eq 200) {

    $bodyStream = New-Object Chilkat.Stream

    # The stream's sink will be a file.
    $bodyStream.SinkFile = "qa_output/archiveData.dat"

    # Read the response body to the stream.
    $success = $rest.ReadRespBodyStream($bodyStream,$true)
    if ($success -ne $true) {
        $($rest.LastErrorText)
        exit
    }

    $("Successfully received the archive file.")

}
else {
    $jsonError = $rest.ReadRespBodyString()
    if ($rest.LastMethodSuccess -ne $true) {
        $($rest.LastErrorText)
    }
    else {
        $($jsonError)
    }

}