Visual Basic 6.0

AI: Diagnosing an Ask Failure

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Demonstrates how to get information about why a request to the AI provider failed. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim ai As New ChilkatAi

'  The provider can be "openai", "google", "claude", "deepseek", "xai", or "perplexity".
'  Support for additional providers will be added in future versions of Chilkat.
ai.Provider = "openai"

'  In this case, we're going to cause an intentional failure by using an invalid API key.
ai.ApiKey = "sk-11111111111111111111111111111111111111111111111k"

'  Choose a model.
ai.Model = "gpt-5.6-terra"

'  Add a text input.
success = ai.InputAddText("Say Hello.")

'  Ask the AI for text output.
success = ai.Ask("text")
If (success = 0) Then
    '  If the response status code equals 0, it means the error occurred before receiving the HTTP response.
    '  For this case look at the LastErrorText.
    If (ai.ResponseStatusCode = 0) Then
        Debug.Print ai.LastErrorText
    Else
        '  If we received an error response, the status code will be >= 400.
        '  (Ask would've returned 1 if the response status code was 200.)
        Debug.Print "Response status code: " & ai.ResponseStatusCode

        '  The error response (JSON) is available in the LastJsonData.
        Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
        json.EmitCompact = 0
        ai.GetLastJsonData json
        Debug.Print json.Emit()

        '  Sample output:
        '  {
        '    "error": {
        '      "message": "Incorrect API key provided: sk-11111***************************************111k. You can find your API key at https://platform.openai.com/account/api-keys.",
        '      "type": "invalid_request_error",
        '      "param": null,
        '      "code": "invalid_api_key"
        '    }
        '  }
    End If

    Exit Sub
End If

'  Get the text response.
Dim sbResponse As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = ai.GetOutputTextSb(sbResponse)
Debug.Print sbResponse.GetAsString()