(Tcl) HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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load ./chilkat.dll

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

set http [new_CkHttp]

# Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
# Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
CkHttp_put_AuthToken $http "Your access token"

# Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
set responseText [CkHttp_quickGetStr $http "https://www.example.com/something"]
if {[CkHttp_get_LastMethodSuccess $http] == 0} then {
    # This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
    puts [CkHttp_lastErrorText $http]
    delete_CkHttp $http
    exit
}

# If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
# the response body.
puts "Response status code = [CkHttp_get_LastStatus $http]"
if {[CkHttp_get_LastStatus $http] != 200} then {
    # Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.
    puts "$responseText"
    delete_CkHttp $http
    exit
}

# If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
# if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
set json [new_CkJsonObject]

CkJsonObject_put_EmitCompact $json 1
CkJsonObject_Load $json $responseText
puts [CkJsonObject_emit $json]

# Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
# Generate Parsing Code from JSON

# ...
# ...

delete_CkHttp $http
delete_CkJsonObject $json