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Glacier Initiate Inventory Retrieval Job

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Demonstrates how to initiate an inventory retrieval job to get a list of archives from the examplevault vault. The Format set to CSV in the body of the request indicates that the inventory is returned in CSV format.

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 Initiate Job Post Reference Documentation
# 
rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

# The body of our request will contain this JSON:
# {
#   "Type": "inventory-retrieval",
#   "Description": "My inventory job",
#   "Format": "CSV",  
#   "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111111111111:Glacier-InventoryRetrieval-topic-Example"
# }

# Use this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
# Generate Code to Create JSON

json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.UpdateString("Type","inventory-retrieval")
json.UpdateString("Description","My inventory job")
json.UpdateString("Format","CSV")
# The SNSTopic is optional.  If included, then notification is sent to the SNS topic when the job is complete.
# This example will omit the SNSTopic.

sbRequestBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
sbResponseBody = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()

# Start an inventory retrieval job for the vault named "chilkat".
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs",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

# Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
print "response status code = " + respStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";

# If successful, the response header looks like this.
# The Location and x-amz-job-id are two items of information we may wish to save..

# HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
# x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
# Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 
# Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault/jobs/HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
# x-amz-job-id: HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
# 

jobId = rest.responseHdrByName("x-amz-job-id")
print "x-amz-job-id = " + jobId + "\n";

location = rest.responseHdrByName("Location")
print "Location = " + location + "\n";