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Dropbox: Get Space Usage

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Demonstrates how to get the Dropbox space usage information for the current user's account.

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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()

# Connect to the www.dropbox.com endpoint.
bTls = true
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest.Connect("api.dropboxapi.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

rest.AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer DROPBOX-ACCESS-TOKEN")

responseStr = rest.fullRequestNoBody("POST","/2/users/get_space_usage")
if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Success is indicated by a 200 response status code.
if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200)
    # Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print "response status code = " + rest.get_ResponseStatusCode().to_s() + "\n";
    print "response status text = " + rest.responseStatusText() + "\n";
    print "response header: " + rest.responseHeader() + "\n";
    print "response body (if any): " + responseStr + "\n";
    print "---" + "\n";
    print "LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.lastRequestStartLine() + "\n";
    print "LastRequestHeader: " + rest.lastRequestHeader() + "\n";
    exit
end

jsonResponse = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
jsonResponse.Load(responseStr)

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

# {
#   "used": 3032115,
#   "allocation": {
#     ".tag": "individual",
#     "allocated": 2147483648
#   }
# }
#