React Native

Box.com Download Text File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of a text file into a memory (not to a local file). React Native

import { Http, StringBuilder } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  const http = new Http();

  // Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
  // See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
  http.authToken = 'BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN';

  http.followRedirects = true;

  // The file is specified by the file ID.
  // In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 371828468442
  // The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
  const sb = new StringBuilder();
  try {
    await http.downloadSbAsync('https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content', 'utf-8', sb);
  } catch {
    console.log(http.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  console.log('Downloaded:');
  console.log(sb.getAsString());
}