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S3 Resume Download

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Suppose an S3 download of a very large file failed for some reason and you have a partial file on disk. Rather than restart the entire download, you wish to download the remaining portion. This example demonstrates how to finish a previously failed download.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.83 or above.

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#include <C_CkRestW.h>
#include <C_CkAuthAwsW.h>
#include <C_CkFileAccessW.h>
#include <C_CkStringBuilderW.h>
#include <C_CkStreamW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRestW rest;
    BOOL bTls;
    int port;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    HCkAuthAwsW authAws;
    HCkFileAccessW fac;
    const wchar_t *localFilepath;
    int sz;
    HCkStringBuilderW sbRange;
    int responseStatusCode;
    HCkStreamW bodyStream;
    const wchar_t *errResponse;

    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.
    bTls = TRUE;
    port = 443;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRestW_Connect(rest,L"s3.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,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.
    authAws = CkAuthAwsW_Create();
    CkAuthAwsW_putAccessKey(authAws,L"AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
    CkAuthAwsW_putSecretKey(authAws,L"AWS_SECRET_KEY");
    CkAuthAwsW_putServiceName(authAws,L"s3");
    success = CkRestW_SetAuthAws(rest,authAws);

    // Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
    // In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat100".
    CkRestW_putHost(rest,L"chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com");

    // We want to continue downloading a file.
    // The relative local filepath of our previously partially downoaded file is: qa_output/hamlet.xml
    // Let's find out how many bytes are already downloaded.
    fac = CkFileAccessW_Create();
    localFilepath = L"qa_output/hamlet.xml";
    // Note: The FileSize method returns a signed 32-bit integer.  If the file is potentially larger than 2GB, call FileSizeStr instead to return
    // the size of the file as a string, then convert to an integer value.
    sz = CkFileAccessW_FileSize(fac,localFilepath);
    if (sz > 0) {
        wprintf(L"sz = %d\n",sz);

        // If the sz equals 42375 bytes, then we want to add a Range header that looks like this:
        // Range: bytes=42375-
        sbRange = CkStringBuilderW_Create();
        CkStringBuilderW_Append(sbRange,L"bytes=");
        CkStringBuilderW_AppendInt(sbRange,sz);
        CkStringBuilderW_Append(sbRange,L"-");
        CkRestW_AddHeader(rest,L"Range",CkStringBuilderW_getAsString(sbRange));
        wprintf(L"Added Range: %s\n",CkStringBuilderW_getAsString(sbRange));
    }

    // Send the request to download the remainder of the file.
    success = CkRestW_SendReqNoBody(rest,L"GET",L"/hamlet.xml");
    if (success != TRUE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        CkAuthAwsW_Dispose(authAws);
        CkFileAccessW_Dispose(fac);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbRange);
        return;
    }

    // Read the response header.
    responseStatusCode = CkRestW_ReadResponseHeader(rest);
    if (responseStatusCode < 0) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        CkAuthAwsW_Dispose(authAws);
        CkFileAccessW_Dispose(fac);
        CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbRange);
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"Response status code = %d\n",responseStatusCode);

    // We expect a 200 or 206 response status if the file data is coming.
    // Otherwise, we'll get a string response body with an error message(or no response body).
    if ((responseStatusCode == 200) || (responseStatusCode == 206)) {

        bodyStream = CkStreamW_Create();

        // The stream's sink will be a file.
        // We will append to the file..
        CkStreamW_putSinkFile(bodyStream,localFilepath);

        // Indicate that we wish to append to the output file.
        // The SinkFileAppend property was added in Chilkat v9.50.83
        CkStreamW_putSinkFileAppend(bodyStream,TRUE);

        // Read the response body to the stream.  Given that we've
        // set the stream's sink to a file, it will stream directly
        // to the file.
        success = CkRestW_ReadRespBodyStream(rest,bodyStream,TRUE);
        if (success != TRUE) {
            wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
            CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
            CkAuthAwsW_Dispose(authAws);
            CkFileAccessW_Dispose(fac);
            CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbRange);
            CkStreamW_Dispose(bodyStream);
            return;
        }

        wprintf(L"Successfully downloaded the file.\n");

    }
    else {
        errResponse = CkRestW_readRespBodyString(rest);
        if (CkRestW_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) != TRUE) {
            wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        }
        else {
            wprintf(L"%s\n",errResponse);
        }

    }



    CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
    CkAuthAwsW_Dispose(authAws);
    CkFileAccessW_Dispose(fac);
    CkStringBuilderW_Dispose(sbRange);
    CkStreamW_Dispose(bodyStream);

    }