Ruby

Amazon Translate Text

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Demonstrates how to use the AWS Translate service to translate text from one language to another. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

authAws = Chilkat::CkAuthAws.new()
authAws.put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY")
authAws.put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY")
authAws.put_Region("us-west-2")
authAws.put_ServiceName("translate")
rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

# URL: https://translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
bTls = true
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest.Connect("translate.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success != true)
    print "ConnectFailReason: " + rest.get_ConnectFailReason().to_s() + "\n";
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Translate text from English to German
json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.UpdateString("SourceLanguageCode","en")
json.UpdateString("TargetLanguageCode","de")
json.UpdateString("Text","This is the text to be translated")

rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/x-amz-json-1.1")
rest.AddHeader("X-Amz-Target","AWSShineFrontendService_20170701.TranslateText")

sbRequestBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
sbResponseBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

respStatusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()
if (respStatusCode >= 400)
    print "Response Status Code = " + respStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";
    print "Response Header:" + "\n";
    print rest.responseHeader() + "\n";
    print "Response Body:" + "\n";
    print sbResponseBody.getAsString() + "\n";
    exit
end

jsonResponse = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
jsonResponse.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)
jsonResponse.put_EmitCompact(false)

print jsonResponse.emit() + "\n";

# {
#   "SourceLanguageCode": "en",
#   "TargetLanguageCode": "de",
#   "TranslatedText": "Dies ist der zu �bersetzende Text"
# }

print jsonResponse.stringOf("TranslatedText") + "\n";