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Visual Basic 6.0

Glacier Delete All Archives in a Vault

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Iterates over a vault inventory retrieval and deletes each archive.

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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 REST server in the desired region.
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim port As Long
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials.
Dim authAws As New ChilkatAuthAws
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.ServiceName = "glacier"
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"

success = rest.SetAuthAws(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 Retrieve Job Output Reference Documentation
' 
success = rest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

Dim sbResponseBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output",sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim respStatusCode As Long
respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If

' Success is indicated by a 200 response status.
Debug.Print "response status code = " & respStatusCode

' The inventory retrieval job output is in CSV format.
Debug.Print "job output:"
Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
Debug.Print "--"

' The CSV has these fields:  ArchiveId,ArchiveDescription,CreationDate,Size,SHA256TreeHash
Dim csv As New ChilkatCsv
csv.HasColumnNames = 1
success = csv.LoadFromString(sbResponseBody.GetAsString())

' Iterate over the results and delete each archive from the vault.
Dim i As Long
i = 0
Dim numRows As Long
numRows = csv.NumRows
Do While i < numRows

    Dim archiveId As String
    archiveId = csv.GetCellByName(i,"ArchiveId")
    Debug.Print "Deleting ArchiveId: " & archiveId
    success = rest.AddPathParam("ArchiveID",archiveId)
    success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("DELETE","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/archives/ArchiveID",sbResponseBody)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
        Exit Sub
    End If

    respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode

    ' Success is indicated by a 204 response status with an empty response body.
    ' A 404 resonse indicates the archive was likely already deleted.
    Debug.Print "response status code = " & respStatusCode

    i = i + 1
Loop