Xojo Plugin

Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file). Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

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

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http
http.KeepResponseBody = True

// Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
// See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
http.AuthToken = "BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"

http.FollowRedirects = True

// The file is specified by the file ID.
// In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
// The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
Dim bd As New Chilkat.BinData
success = http.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",bd)
Dim statusCode As Int32
statusCode = http.LastStatus
If (success = False) Then
    If (statusCode = 0) Then
        // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        System.DebugLog(http.LastErrorText)
    Else
        // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        System.DebugLog("Response status code: " + Str(statusCode))
        // Examine the response body.
        System.DebugLog("Response body:")
        System.DebugLog(http.LastResponseBody)
    End If

    System.DebugLog("Download failed.")

Else
    System.DebugLog("Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data.")

    System.DebugLog("Number of bytes: " + Str(bd.NumBytes))
End If