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Azure Blob Service - List all Containers in a Storage Account

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Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Lists all the containers in a storage account.

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func chilkatTest() {
    var success: Bool = false

    // Azure Blob Service Example: List all of the containers in an account.

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

    let rest = CkoRest()!

    // Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
    var bTls: Bool = true
    var port: Int = 443
    var bAutoReconnect: Bool = true
    // In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
    success = rest.connect(hostname: "chilkat.blob.core.windows.net", port: port, tls: bTls, autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect)
    if success != true {
        print("\(rest.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
    let azAuth = CkoAuthAzureStorage()!
    azAuth.accessKey = "AZURE_ACCESS_KEY"
    // The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
    azAuth.account = "chilkat"
    azAuth.scheme = "SharedKey"
    azAuth.service = "Blob"
    // This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
    azAuth.xMsVersion = "2021-08-06"
    success = rest.setAuthAzureStorage(authProvider: azAuth)

    // URI parameters, such as "maxresults", are added by calling AddQueryParam
    success = rest.addQueryParam(name: "maxresults", value: "1000")

    // Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
    // headers: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
    // are automatically set by Chilkat.

    var responseStr: String? = rest.fullRequestNoBody(httpVerb: "GET", uriPath: "/?comp=list")
    if rest.lastMethodSuccess != true {
        print("\(rest.lastErrorText!)")
        return
    }

    // When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response code,
    // with an XML body.  
    if rest.responseStatusCode.intValue != 200 {
        // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
        print("response status code = \(rest.responseStatusCode.intValue)")
        print("response status text = \(rest.responseStatusText!)")
        print("response header: \(rest.responseHeader!)")
        print("response body (if any): \(responseStr!)")
        print("---")
        print("LastRequestStartLine: \(rest.lastRequestStartLine!)")
        print("LastRequestHeader: \(rest.lastRequestHeader!)")
        return
    }

    // Load the XML response for parsing.
    // A sample XML response containing 2 containers is shown below.
    let xml = CkoXml()!
    success = xml.load(xmlData: responseStr)

    print("\(xml.getXml()!)")

    // Iterate over the containers, listing some information about each.
    success = xml.findChild2(tagPath: "Containers")
    var numContainers: Int = xml.numChildren.intValue
    var i: Int = 0
    while (i < numContainers) {
        success = xml.getChild2(index: i)
        print("Container Name: \(xml.getChildContent(tagPath: "Name")!)")
        var lastModDateStr: String? = xml.chilkatPath(cmd: "Properties|Last-Modified|*")
        print("Last Modified: \(lastModDateStr!)")
        // The date/time string can be loaded into a CkDateTime object for conversion to other date formats..
        let dateTime = CkoDateTime()!
        success = dateTime.set(fromRfc822: lastModDateStr)

        var leaseState: String? = xml.chilkatPath(cmd: "Properties|LeaseState|*")
        print("Lease State: \(leaseState!)")

        success = xml.getParent2()
        i = i + 1
    }

    success = xml.getParent2()

    // Sample XML response:

    // 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    // 	<EnumerationResults ServiceEndpoint="https://chilkat.blob.core.windows.net/">
    // 	    <MaxResults>1000</MaxResults>
    // 	    <Containers>
    // 	        <Container>
    // 	            <Name>test</Name>
    // 	            <Properties>
    // 	                <Last-Modified>Wed, 20 Apr 2016 01:02:25 GMT</Last-Modified>
    // 	                <Etag>"0x8D368B77024C583"</Etag>
    // 	                <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
    // 	                <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
    // 	            </Properties>
    // 	        </Container>
    // 	        <Container>
    // 	            <Name>test2</Name>
    // 	            <Properties>
    // 	                <Last-Modified>Tue, 03 May 2016 17:13:01 GMT</Last-Modified>
    // 	                <Etag>"0x8D373762EB6AC85"</Etag>
    // 	                <LeaseStatus>unlocked</LeaseStatus>
    // 	                <LeaseState>available</LeaseState>
    // 	            </Properties>
    // 	        </Container>
    // 	    </Containers>
    // 	    <NextMarker />
    // 	</EnumerationResults>

}