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Glacier Download Archive

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Demonstrates how to download an Amazon Glacier archive. Downloading a Glacier archive is a two step process. First an archive retrieval job is initiated. After it completes, the job output is downloaded (i.e. the archive contents are downloaded.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

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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 Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
bTls = true
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest.Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

# Provide AWS credentials.
authAws = Chilkat::CkAuthAws.new()
authAws.put_AccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY")
authAws.put_SecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY")
authAws.put_ServiceName("glacier")
authAws.put_Region("us-west-2")

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

# --------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
# can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
# The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
# the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
# if needed.
# --------------------------------------------------------------------------

# 
# For more information, see Glacier Retrieve Job Output Reference Documentation
# 
rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

# To download an archive, we'll make several method calls:
# 1) Send the HTTPS GET request.
# 2) Get the response body.
# 3) If the response status code indicates success, stream the response body (i.e the archive data) to a file.
# 4) If the response status code indicates an error, get the JSON error response.

# Send the GET request.
success = rest.SendReqNoBody("GET","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output")
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# Read the response header.
responseStatusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader()
if (responseStatusCode < 0)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Response status code = " + responseStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";

# We expect a 200 response status if the archive data is coming.
# Otherwise, we'll get a JSON response body with an error message(or no response body).
if (responseStatusCode == 200)

    bodyStream = Chilkat::CkStream.new()

    # The stream's sink will be a file.
    bodyStream.put_SinkFile("qa_output/archiveData.dat")

    # Read the response body to the stream.
    success = rest.ReadRespBodyStream(bodyStream,true)
    if (success != true)
        print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
        exit
    end

    print "Successfully received the archive file." + "\n";

else
    jsonError = rest.readRespBodyString()
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true)
        print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    else
        print jsonError + "\n";
    end

end