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Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to fetch the list of blobs in the specified container.

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import { AuthAzureStorage, CkDateTime, DtObj, Rest, Xml } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // Azure Blob Service Example: List the blobs in a specified container.
  // See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd135734.aspx

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

  const rest = new Rest();

  // Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
  const bTls = true;
  const port = 443;
  const bAutoReconnect = true;
  // In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
  try {
    await rest.connectAsync('chilkat.blob.core.windows.net', port, bTls, bAutoReconnect);
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
  const azAuth = new AuthAzureStorage();
  azAuth.accessKey = 'AZURE_ACCESS_KEY';
  // The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
  azAuth.account = 'chilkat';
  azAuth.scheme = 'SharedKey';
  azAuth.service = 'Blob';
  // This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
  azAuth.xMsVersion = '2021-08-06';
  rest.setAuthAzureStorage(azAuth);

  // Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
  // headers: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
  // are automatically set by Chilkat.

  // The expected success response is a 200 response status code with an XML response body.
  // In this example, we are listing the blobs in the container named "mycontainer".
  let responseStr: string;
  try {
    responseStr = await rest.fullRequestNoBodyAsync('GET', '/mycontainer?restype=container&comp=list');
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response status code,
  // with an XML response body.

  if (rest.responseStatusCode !== 200) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    console.log(`response status code = ${rest.responseStatusCode}`);
    console.log(`response status text = ${rest.responseStatusText}`);
    console.log(`response header: ${rest.responseHeader}`);
    console.log(`response body (if any): ${responseStr}`);
    console.log('---');
    console.log(`LastRequestStartLine: ${rest.lastRequestStartLine}`);
    console.log(`LastRequestHeader: ${rest.lastRequestHeader}`);
    return;
  }

  // Load the XML response for parsing.
  // An example of the response XML is shown below.
  const xml = new Xml();
  xml.loadXml(responseStr);

  console.log(xml.getXml());

  // Let's iterate over the blobs...

  const lastMod = new CkDateTime();

  const numBlobs = xml.numChildrenAt('Blobs');
  let i = 0;
  const dt = new DtObj();
  while (i < numBlobs) {
    console.log(`---- Blob ${i} ----`);
    xml.i = i;
    console.log(`Name: ${xml.getChildContent('Blobs|Blob[i]|Name')}`);
    console.log(`Content-Length: ${xml.getChildContent('Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-Length')}`);
    console.log(`Content-Type: ${xml.getChildContent('Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-Type')}`);
    console.log(`Content-MD5: ${xml.getChildContent('Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Content-MD5')}`);
    console.log(`BlobType: ${xml.getChildContent('Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|BlobType')}`);
    console.log(`LeaseStatus: ${xml.getChildContent('Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|LeaseStatus')}`);
    lastMod.setFromRfc822(xml.getChildContent('Blobs|Blob[i]|Properties|Last-Modified'));
    lastMod.toDtObj(true, dt);

    console.log(`Last-Modified YMD: ${dt.year},${dt.month},${dt.day}`);
    i++;
  }

  console.log('-------------------------');

  // Use the ChilkatPath method to get information for a specific blob:

  // For example, let's say we want the Last-Modified date/time for
  // the blob named "helloWorld.txt"
  const lastModStr = xml.chilkatPath('/C/Name,helloWorld.txt|..|Properties|Last-Modified|*');
  console.log(`helloWorld.txt Last-Modified: ${lastModStr}`);

  console.log('Success.');

  // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  // <EnumerationResults ServiceEndpoint="https://chilkat.blob.core.windows.net/" ContainerName="test">
  //     <Blobs>
  //         <Blob>
  //             <Name>hamletC.xml</Name>
  //             <Properties>
  //                 <Last-Modified>Mon, 02 May 2016 23:50:30 GMT</Last-Modified>
  //                 <Etag>0x8D372E48B6D323A</Etag>
  //                 <Content-Length>279658</Content-Length>
  //                 <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
  //                 <Content-Encoding />
  //                 <Content-Language />
  //                 <Content-MD5>4E6prI9haw81xadSLeEj3Q==</Content-MD5>
  //                 <Cache-Control />
  //                 <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="hamletC.xml"</Content-Disposition>
  //                 <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
  //                 <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
  //                 <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
  //             </Properties>
  //         </Blob>
  //         <Blob>
  //             <Name>helloWorld.txt</Name>
  //             <Properties>
  //                 <Last-Modified>Mon, 02 May 2016 15:21:55 GMT</Last-Modified>
  //                 <Etag>0x8D3729D7EE38299</Etag>
  //                 <Content-Length>12</Content-Length>
  //                 <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
  //                 <Content-Encoding />
  //                 <Content-Language />
  //                 <Content-MD5>7Qdih1MuhjZehB6Sv8UNjA==</Content-MD5>
  //                 <Cache-Control />
  //                 <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="helloWorld.txt"</Content-Disposition>
  //                 <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
  //                 <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
  //                 <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
  //             </Properties>
  //         </Blob>
  //         <Blob>
  //             <Name>thisIsATest.txt</Name>
  //             <Properties>
  //                 <Last-Modified>Tue, 03 May 2016 00:22:13 GMT</Last-Modified>
  //                 <Etag>0x8D372E8F9B2A62E</Etag>
  //                 <Content-Length>1600</Content-Length>
  //                 <Content-Type>application/octet-stream</Content-Type>
  //                 <Content-Encoding />
  //                 <Content-Language />
  //                 <Content-MD5>FhgUXYfePg2ItsraPmz0Xg==</Content-MD5>
  //                 <Cache-Control />
  //                 <Content-Disposition>attachment; filename="thisIsATest.txt"</Content-Disposition>
  //                 <BlobType>BlockBlob</BlobType>
  //                 <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
  //                 <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
  //             </Properties>
  //         </Blob>
  //     </Blobs>
  //     <NextMarker />
  // </EnumerationResults>
  // 
}