(Swift 2) AWS S3 File Streaming Upload

Demonstrates how to do a streaming upload from a file to the AWS S3 storage service. The AWS authorization presents some difficulties when the REST request body is to be streamed from a file (or from some other source). The issue is that the SHA-256 hash of the file data must be calculated. There are only two possible ways to do this: (1) stream the file into memory in its entirety and calculate the SHA-256 hash prior to uploading, or (2) pre-calculate the SHA-256 in a streaming fashion, and then provide it to the AWS authentication object.

If the application does NOT pre-compute the SHA-256, then Chilkat (internally) is forced to stream into memory, calculate the SHA-256, and then upload from the in-memory copy of the file.

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

    // This first part is optional.  AWS authentication requires
    // the SHA-256 hash of the request body (i.e. the contents of the file
    // to be uploaded).  We can choose to pre-calculate the SHA-256 in a streaming fashion
    // and then provide it to the authenticator object.  This way, if the file is
    // extremely large, it never needs to completely reside in memory.
    let crypt = CkoCrypt2()
    crypt.EncodingMode = "hex"
    crypt.HashAlgorithm = "sha-256"
    var fileToUploadPath: String? = "qa_data/xml/hamlet.xml"
    var hashStr: String? = crypt.HashFileENC(fileToUploadPath)

    let rest = CkoRest()

    // Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
    var bTls: Bool = true
    var port: Int = 443
    var bAutoReconnect: Bool = true
    var success: Bool = rest.Connect("s3.amazonaws.com", port: port, tls: bTls, autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect)

    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Important: For buckets created in regions outside us-east-1,
    // there are three important changes that need to be made.
    // See Working with S3 Buckets in Non-us-east-1 Regions for the details.
    // ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
    let authAws = CkoAuthAws()
    authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
    authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
    authAws.ServiceName = "s3"
    // Provide the pre-computed SHA-256 here:
    authAws.PrecomputedSha256 = hashStr

    success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

    // Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
    // In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat100".
    rest.Host = "chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com"

    let fileStream = CkoStream()
    fileStream.SourceFile = fileToUploadPath

    // Upload to the S3 Storage service.
    // If the application provided the SHA-256 hash of the file contents (as shown above)
    // then file is streamed and never has to completely reside in memory.
    // If the application did NOT provide the SHA-256, then Chilkat will (internally) 
    // load the entire file into memory, calculate the SHA-256, and then upload.
    var responseStr: String? = rest.FullRequestStream("PUT", uriPath: "/hamlet.xml", stream: fileStream)
    if rest.LastMethodSuccess != true {
        print("\(rest.LastErrorText)")
        return
    }

    // When successful, the S3 Storage service will respond with a 200 response code,
    // with an XML body.  
    if rest.ResponseStatusCode.intValue == 200 {
        print("\(responseStr!)")
        print("File uploaded.")
    }
    else {
        // 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: \(responseStr!)")
        print("---")
        print("LastRequestStartLine: \(rest.LastRequestStartLine)")
        print("LastRequestHeader: \(rest.LastRequestHeader)")
    }


}