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POST JSON to REST API with non-us-ascii Chars Escaped

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Demonstrates how to POST to a REST API with non-usascii chars within JSON Unicode escaped. PowerShell

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

$success = $false

$success = $false

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

#  Connect using TLS.
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("chilkatsoft.com",443,$true,$bAutoReconnect)

#  Load JSON containing the following Korean text.

#   {
#     "BillAddr": {
#        "Id": "239615",
#        "Line1": "류리하",
#        "Line2": "류리하류리하",
#        "City": "류리하류리하",
#        "Country": "US",
#        "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
#        "PostalCode": "류리하"
#      }
#  }

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.EmitCompact = $false
$success = $json.LoadFile("qa_data/json/korean.json")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($json.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$success = $rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=UTF-8")

$sb = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$json.EmitSb($sb)
$sb.Encode("unicodeescape","utf-8")

$($sb.GetAsString())

#  The StringBuilder contains this:

#  {
#    "BillAddr": {
#      "Id": "239615",
#      "Line1": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
#      "Line2": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
#      "City": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
#      "Country": "US",
#      "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
#      "PostalCode": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558"
#    }
#  }

$sbResp = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/echo_request_body.asp",$sb,$sbResp)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  Show the response. 
$("Json Response: " + $sbResp.GetAsString())