Tcl

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). Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set http [new_CkHttp]

# Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
# See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
CkHttp_put_AuthToken $http "BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"

CkHttp_put_FollowRedirects $http 1

# 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
set sb [new_CkStringBuilder]

set success [CkHttp_DownloadSb $http "https://api.box.com/2.0/files/371828468442/content" "utf-8" $sb]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts [CkHttp_lastErrorText $http]
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sb
    exit
}

puts "Downloaded:"
puts [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sb]

delete_CkHttp $http
delete_CkStringBuilder $sb