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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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VBScript
Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

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

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
bTls = 1
port = 443
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

' Provide AWS credentials.
set authAws = CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthAws")
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")

set sbResponseBody = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output",sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
If (respStatusCode >= 400) Then
    outFile.WriteLine("Response Status Code = " & respStatusCode)
    outFile.WriteLine("Response Header:")
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.ResponseHeader)
    outFile.WriteLine("Response Body:")
    outFile.WriteLine(sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Success is indicated by a 200 response status.
outFile.WriteLine("response status code = " & respStatusCode)

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

' The CSV has these fields:  ArchiveId,ArchiveDescription,CreationDate,Size,SHA256TreeHash
set csv = CreateObject("Chilkat.Csv")
csv.HasColumnNames = 1
success = csv.LoadFromString(sbResponseBody.GetAsString())

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

    archiveId = csv.GetCellByName(i,"ArchiveId")
    outFile.WriteLine("Deleting ArchiveId: " & archiveId)
    success = rest.AddPathParam("ArchiveID",archiveId)
    success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("DELETE","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/archives/ArchiveID",sbResponseBody)
    If (success <> 1) Then
        outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
        WScript.Quit
    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.
    outFile.WriteLine("response status code = " & respStatusCode)

    i = i + 1
Loop

outFile.Close