Rust

Box.com Download Text File to Memory

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

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

let http = chilkat::Http::new();

// Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
// See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
http.set_auth_token("BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN");

http.set_follow_redirects(true);

// The file is specified by the file ID.
// In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 371828468442
// The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
let sb = chilkat::StringBuilder::new();
if http.download_sb("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content", "utf-8", &sb).is_err() {
    println!("{}", http.last_error_text());
    return;
}

println!("Downloaded:");
println!("{}", sb.get_as_string().unwrap_or_default());