Visual Basic 6.0

EC2 Stop Instances

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Demonstrates how to send a request to stop Amazon EC2 instances. Visual Basic 6.0

Dim success As Long
success = 0

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

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest

' Connect to the Amazon AWS server.
' such as https://ec2.amazonaws.com/
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim port As Long
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("ec2.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Dim authAws As New ChilkatAuthAws
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
' the region should match the region part of the domain passed to the REST connect method (above).
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"
authAws.ServiceName = "ec2"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

success = rest.AddQueryParam("Action","StopInstances")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Version","2016-11-15")
' If DryRun is true then checks whether you have the required permissions for the action, 
' without actually making the request, and provides an error response. If you have the required permissions, 
' the error response is DryRunOperation. Otherwise, it is UnauthorizedOperation.
' Omit the DryRun query parameter to actually start the instance.  (Or set DryRun equal to "false")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("DryRun","true")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("InstanceId.1","i-999719995399c9999")

' See EC2 Stop Instances Reference Documentation
' for more information about the Force and Hibernate query params, which are optional and true/false just like DryRun.

Dim responseXml As String
responseXml = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print "response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode
    Debug.Print "response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText
    Debug.Print "response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "response body: " & responseXml
    Exit Sub
End If

' Examine the successful XML response.
Dim xml As New ChilkatXml
success = xml.LoadXml(responseXml)
Debug.Print xml.GetXml()