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Azure Storage: Get Blob Service Stats

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Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to get Blob Service Stats

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// Azure Blob Service Example: Get Blob Service Stats

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

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

// Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
Dim bTls As Boolean
bTls = True
Dim port As Int32
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
// In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
// ---- IMPORTANT ----
// The "-secondary" suffix is required.
// This requires an Azure storage account with replication set to "Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)"
// If you made the change just prior to testing this example, you'll need to give it time for the 
// DNS to become available..  
// ---- IMPORTANT ----
success = rest.Connect("chilkat-secondary.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
Dim azAuth As New Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage
azAuth.AccessKey = "AZURE_ACCESS_KEY"
// The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
azAuth.Account = "chilkat"
azAuth.Scheme = "SharedKey"
azAuth.Service = "Blob"
// This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
azAuth.XMsVersion = "2021-08-06"
success = rest.SetAuthAzureStorage(azAuth)

// Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
// headers: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
// are automatically set by Chilkat.

Dim responseStr As String
responseStr = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/?restype=service&comp=stats")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response code,
// with an XML body.  
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    System.DebugLog("response status code = " + Str(rest.ResponseStatusCode))
    System.DebugLog("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText)
    System.DebugLog("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader)
    System.DebugLog("response body (if any): " + responseStr)
    System.DebugLog("---")
    System.DebugLog("LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.LastRequestStartLine)
    System.DebugLog("LastRequestHeader: " + rest.LastRequestHeader)
    Return
End If

// Load the XML response for parsing.
// An example of the response XML is shown below.
Dim xml As New Chilkat.Xml
success = xml.LoadXml(responseStr)

System.DebugLog(xml.GetXml())

// Use the ChilkatPath method to get various pieces of information out
// of the XML.  For example:

System.DebugLog("Status = " + xml.ChilkatPath("GeoReplication|Status|*"))
Dim lastSyncTimeStr As String
lastSyncTimeStr = xml.ChilkatPath("GeoReplication|LastSyncTime|*")
System.DebugLog("LastSyncTime = " + lastSyncTimeStr)

// The date/time string can be loaded into a CkDateTime object for 
// access to individual parts, or conversion to other formats.
Dim dateTime As New Chilkat.CkDateTime
success = dateTime.SetFromRfc822(lastSyncTimeStr)

// For example:
Dim bLocalTime As Boolean
bLocalTime = True
Dim dt As New Chilkat.DtObj
dateTime.ToDtObj bLocalTime,dt

System.DebugLog(Str(dt.Year) + "/" + Str(dt.Month) + "/" + Str(dt.Day))

// <StorageServiceStats>
//     <GeoReplication>
//         <Status>live</Status>
//         <LastSyncTime>Tue, 03 May 2016 23:57:54 GMT</LastSyncTime>
//     </GeoReplication>
// </StorageServiceStats>