Xojo Plugin

S3 Find Bucket Region

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Demonstrates how to find out the region of an S3 bucket. 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 rest As New Chilkat.Rest

// Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server using the correct region (in this example, "us-west-2")
Dim bTls As Boolean
bTls = True
Dim port As Int32
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("s3.amazonaws.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)

// Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
Dim authAws As New Chilkat.AuthAws
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
authAws.ServiceName = "s3"
success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

// The bucket name we want to know about is set in the HOST header.
// In this example, we want to find the region for the "chilkat.qa" bucket.
rest.Host = "chilkat.qa.s3.amazonaws.com"

// Send the GET request to query the bucket location.
Dim strResult As String
strResult = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET","/?location")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

Dim responseStatusCode As Int32
responseStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
System.DebugLog("Response status code = " + Str(responseStatusCode))
If (responseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.ResponseHeader)
    System.DebugLog(strResult)
    System.DebugLog("Failed.")
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog(strResult)

// The result contains XML like this:
// <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
// <LocationConstraint xmlns="http://s3.amazonaws.com/doc/2006-03-01/">us-west-2</LocationConstraint>

// Get the "us-west-2" from the XML
Dim xml As New Chilkat.Xml
success = xml.LoadXml(strResult)
System.DebugLog("region = " + xml.Content)