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REST Asynchronous Streaming Upload File

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Demonstrates how to asynchronous streaming upload a file to cloud storage. This particular example demonstrates an upload to the Azure Cloud Storage service. The same concepts apply to S3, Google Cloud, and Google Drive.

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#include <C_CkRestW.h>
#include <C_CkAuthAzureStorageW.h>
#include <C_CkStreamW.h>
#include <C_CkTaskW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRestW rest;
    BOOL bTls;
    int port;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    HCkAuthAzureStorageW azAuth;
    HCkStreamW sendStream;
    HCkTaskW task;
    int curPctDone;
    int responseStatusCode;
    const wchar_t *responseBodyStr;

    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 Azure Storage Blob Service
    bTls = TRUE;
    port = 443;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    // In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
    success = CkRestW_Connect(rest,L"chilkat.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
    azAuth = CkAuthAzureStorageW_Create();
    CkAuthAzureStorageW_putAccessKey(azAuth,L"AZURE_ACCESS_KEY");
    // The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
    CkAuthAzureStorageW_putAccount(azAuth,L"chilkat");
    CkAuthAzureStorageW_putScheme(azAuth,L"SharedKey");
    CkAuthAzureStorageW_putService(azAuth,L"Blob");
    // This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
    CkAuthAzureStorageW_putXMsVersion(azAuth,L"2021-08-06");
    success = CkRestW_SetAuthAzureStorage(rest,azAuth);

    // Set some request headers.
    success = CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"x-ms-blob-content-disposition",L"attachment; filename=\"thisIsATest.txt\"");
    success = CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"x-ms-blob-type",L"BlockBlob");
    success = CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"x-ms-meta-m1",L"v1");
    success = CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"x-ms-meta-m2",L"v2");

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

    sendStream = CkStreamW_Create();

    // Define the source data for the stream to be a file.
    CkStreamW_putSourceFile(sendStream,L"qa_data/hamlet.xml");

    // Create a background thread task to upload from the stream
    // The name of the Azure storage container is "test".
    task = CkRestW_FullRequestStreamAsync(rest,L"PUT",L"/test/thisIsATest.txt",sendStream);

    // Start the task. 
    success = CkTaskW_Run(task);

    // In this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
    // check to see if the REST upload if finished.
    curPctDone = 0;
    while (CkTaskW_getFinished(task) != TRUE) {
        CkTaskW_SleepMs(task,100);
    }

    // Check to see if the call to FullRequestStream in the background thread pool succeeded.
    if (CkTaskW_getTaskSuccess(task) != TRUE) {
        // Show what would've been the LastErrorText had FullRequestStream been called synchronously
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkTaskW_resultErrorText(task));
        CkTaskW_Dispose(task);
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        CkAuthAzureStorageW_Dispose(azAuth);
        CkStreamW_Dispose(sendStream);
        return;
    }

    responseStatusCode = CkRestW_getResponseStatusCode(rest);

    // When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 201 response code,
    // with an empty body.  Therefore, in the success condition, the responseStr is empty.
    if (responseStatusCode == 201) {
        wprintf(L"File uploaded.\n");
    }
    else {
        // It failed, so examine the response body, if one was returned:
        // Given that FullRequestStream returns a string, the return value is obtained via GetResultString.
        responseBodyStr = CkTaskW_getResultString(task);
        wprintf(L"response body (if any): %s\n",responseBodyStr);

        // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
        wprintf(L"response status code = %d\n",CkRestW_getResponseStatusCode(rest));
        wprintf(L"response status text = %s\n",CkRestW_responseStatusText(rest));
        wprintf(L"response header: %s\n",CkRestW_responseHeader(rest));
        wprintf(L"---\n");
        wprintf(L"LastRequestStartLine: %s\n",CkRestW_lastRequestStartLine(rest));
        wprintf(L"LastRequestHeader: %s\n",CkRestW_lastRequestHeader(rest));
    }

    CkTaskW_Dispose(task);


    CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
    CkAuthAzureStorageW_Dispose(azAuth);
    CkStreamW_Dispose(sendStream);

    }