Ruby

Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file). Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()
http.put_KeepResponseBody(true)

# Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
# See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
http.put_AuthToken("BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN")

http.put_FollowRedirects(true)

# The file is specified by the file ID.
# In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
# The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
bd = Chilkat::CkBinData.new()
success = http.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",bd)
statusCode = http.get_LastStatus()
if (success == false)
    if (statusCode == 0)
        # Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    else
        # We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        print "Response status code: " + statusCode.to_s() + "\n";
        # Examine the response body.
        print "Response body:" + "\n";
        print http.lastResponseBody() + "\n";
    end

    print "Download failed." + "\n";

else
    print "Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data." + "\n";

    print "Number of bytes: " + bd.get_NumBytes().to_s() + "\n";
end