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Glacier Initiate Inventory Retrieval Job

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Demonstrates how to initiate an inventory retrieval job to get a list of archives from the examplevault vault. The Format set to CSV in the body of the request indicates that the inventory is returned in CSV format.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

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#include <C_CkRestW.h>
#include <C_CkAuthAwsW.h>
#include <C_CkJsonObjectW.h>
#include <C_CkStringBuilderW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRestW rest;
    BOOL bTls;
    int port;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    HCkAuthAwsW authAws;
    HCkJsonObjectW json;
    HCkStringBuilderW sbRequestBody;
    HCkStringBuilderW sbResponseBody;
    int respStatusCode;
    const wchar_t *jobId;
    const wchar_t *location;

    success = FALSE;

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

    rest = CkRestW_Create();

    // Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
    bTls = TRUE;
    port = 443;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRestW_Connect(rest,L"glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);

    // Provide AWS credentials.
    authAws = CkAuthAwsW_Create();
    CkAuthAwsW_putAccessKey(authAws,L"AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
    CkAuthAwsW_putSecretKey(authAws,L"AWS_SECRET_KEY");
    CkAuthAwsW_putServiceName(authAws,L"glacier");
    CkAuthAwsW_putRegion(authAws,L"us-west-2");

    success = CkRestW_SetAuthAws(rest,authAws);

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
    // can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
    // The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
    // the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
    // if needed.
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // 
    // For more information, see Glacier Initiate Job Post Reference Documentation
    // 
    CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"x-amz-glacier-version",L"2012-06-01");

    // The body of our request will contain this JSON:
    // {
    //   "Type": "inventory-retrieval",
    //   "Description": "My inventory job",
    //   "Format": "CSV",  
    //   "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111111111111:Glacier-InventoryRetrieval-topic-Example"
    // }

    // Use this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
    // Generate Code to Create JSON

    json = CkJsonObjectW_Create();
    CkJsonObjectW_UpdateString(json,L"Type",L"inventory-retrieval");
    CkJsonObjectW_UpdateString(json,L"Description",L"My inventory job");
    CkJsonObjectW_UpdateString(json,L"Format",L"CSV");
    // The SNSTopic is optional.  If included, then notification is sent to the SNS topic when the job is complete.
    // This example will omit the SNSTopic.

    sbRequestBody = CkStringBuilderW_Create();
    CkJsonObjectW_EmitSb(json,sbRequestBody);
    sbResponseBody = CkStringBuilderW_Create();

    // Start an inventory retrieval job for the vault named "chilkat".
    success = CkRestW_FullRequestSb(rest,L"POST",L"/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        CkAuthAwsW_Dispose(authAws);
        CkJsonObjectW_Dispose(json);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbRequestBody);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbResponseBody);
        return;
    }

    respStatusCode = CkRestW_getResponseStatusCode(rest);
    if (respStatusCode >= 400) {
        wprintf(L"Response Status Code = %d\n",respStatusCode);
        wprintf(L"Response Header:\n");
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_responseHeader(rest));
        wprintf(L"Response Body:\n");
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkStringBuilderW_getAsString(sbResponseBody));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        CkAuthAwsW_Dispose(authAws);
        CkJsonObjectW_Dispose(json);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbRequestBody);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbResponseBody);
        return;
    }

    // Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
    wprintf(L"response status code = %d\n",respStatusCode);

    // If successful, the response header looks like this.
    // The Location and x-amz-job-id are two items of information we may wish to save..

    // HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
    // x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
    // Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 
    // Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault/jobs/HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
    // x-amz-job-id: HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
    // 

    jobId = CkRestW_responseHdrByName(rest,L"x-amz-job-id");
    wprintf(L"x-amz-job-id = %s\n",jobId);

    location = CkRestW_responseHdrByName(rest,L"Location");
    wprintf(L"Location = %s\n",location);


    CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
    CkAuthAwsW_Dispose(authAws);
    CkJsonObjectW_Dispose(json);
    CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbRequestBody);
    CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbResponseBody);

    }