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Upload File in Blocks (with Content-MD5 header) and Commit the Block List

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Demonstrates how to upload a file in blocks and then commit the block list. This example includes a Content-MD5 header for each block.

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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    // Azure Blob Service Example: Upload a file in blocks, and then commit the block list.
    // See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd135726.aspx

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

    const rest = try chilkat.Rest.init();
    defer rest.deinit();

    // Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
    const b_tls = true;
    const port = 443;
    const b_auto_reconnect = true;
    // In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
    rest.connect("chilkat.blob.core.windows.net", port, b_tls, b_auto_reconnect) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
    const az_auth = try chilkat.AuthAzureStorage.init();
    defer az_auth.deinit();
    az_auth.setAccessKey("AZURE_ACCESS_KEY");
    // The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
    az_auth.setAccount("chilkat");
    az_auth.setScheme("SharedKey");
    az_auth.setService("Blob");
    // This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
    az_auth.setXMsVersion("2021-08-06");
    try rest.setAuthAzureStorage(az_auth);

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

    // As the blocks are uploaded, we'll keep an XML block list for the subsequent commit..
    const xml = try chilkat.Xml.init();
    defer xml.deinit();
    xml.setTag("BlockList");

    // Any type of file can be uploaded in this way.  It can a text file, binary file, anything...
    // This example will upload an XML file that is approximately 275K in size.  It can be downloaded
    // at http://www.chilkatsoft.com/hamlet.xml
    const fac = try chilkat.FileAccess.init();
    defer fac.deinit();
    try fac.openForRead("qa_data/xml/hamlet.xml");
    // Assuming success for the example..

    // We'll upload in 16K blocks (normally a program would upload in larger block sizes than this,
    // but this is just an example...)
    const block_size = 16384;

    // How many 16K blocks?  (Including 1 for the last partial block)
    const num_blocks = fac.getNumBlocks(block_size);

    const crypt = try chilkat.Crypt2.init();
    defer crypt.deinit();
    crypt.setHashAlgorithm("md5");

    const sb_response_body = try chilkat.StringBuilder.init();
    defer sb_response_body.deinit();
    const uri_path = try chilkat.StringBuilder.init();
    defer uri_path.deinit();
    var block_id: [:0]const u8 = "";
    const data_block = try chilkat.BinData.init();
    defer data_block.deinit();
    var content_md5: [:0]const u8 = "";
    var i: i32 = 0;
    while (i < num_blocks) {
        data_block.clear() catch {};
        fac.readBlockBd(i, block_size, data_block) catch {
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try fac.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
            return;
        };

        // Generate a base64 block ID.
        // (Chilkat provides a helper method named GenBlockId to make this easy)
        // A pre-base64 encoded block ID length of 4 is sufficient in this case because
        // this file certainly won't have more than 99,999 blocks..
        block_id = try fac.genBlockId(alloc, i, 4, "base64");

        // Add this blockId to the list of blocks to be committed.
        xml.newChild2("Latest", block_id);

        // Build the URI path
        uri_path.clear();
        try uri_path.append("/mycontainer/hamlet.xml?comp=block&blockId=");
        try uri_path.append(block_id);

        content_md5 = try crypt.hashBdENC(alloc, data_block);
        rest.addHeader("Content-MD5", content_md5) catch {};

        // Upload this block..
        sb_response_body.clear();
        rest.fullRequestBd("PUT", try uri_path.getAsString(alloc), data_block, sb_response_body) catch {
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
            return;
        };

        // Verify that we received a 201 status code.
        if (rest.getResponseStatusCode() != 201) {
            // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
            std.debug.print("response status code = {d}\n", .{rest.getResponseStatusCode()});
            std.debug.print("response status text = {s}\n", .{try rest.getResponseStatusText(alloc)});
            std.debug.print("response header: {s}\n", .{try rest.getResponseHeader(alloc)});
            std.debug.print("response body (if any): {s}\n", .{try sb_response_body.getAsString(alloc)});
            std.debug.print("---\n", .{});
            std.debug.print("LastRequestStartLine: {s}\n", .{try rest.getLastRequestStartLine(alloc)});
            std.debug.print("LastRequestHeader: {s}\n", .{try rest.getLastRequestHeader(alloc)});
            return;
        }

        i = i + 1;
    }

    fac.fileClose();

    // Now commit the blocks.
    // Let's have a look at the XML that will commit the blocks:
    const xml_str = try xml.getXml(alloc);
    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{xml_str});

    // The XML will look like this:

    // <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
    // <BlockList>
    //     <Latest>MDAwMA==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwMQ==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwMg==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwMw==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwNA==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwNQ==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwNg==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwNw==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwOA==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAwOQ==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxMA==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxMQ==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxMg==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxMw==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxNA==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxNQ==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxNg==</Latest>
    //     <Latest>MDAxNw==</Latest>
    // </BlockList>

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // IMPORTANT: Remove the Content-MD5 header previously set in the loop above.
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    rest.removeHeader("Content-MD5") catch {};

    // Send the PUT Block List...
    const response_str = rest.fullRequestString(alloc, "PUT", "/mycontainer/hamlet.xml?comp=blocklist", xml_str) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 201 response status code,
    // with no response body.

    if (rest.getResponseStatusCode() != 201) {
        // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
        std.debug.print("response status code = {d}\n", .{rest.getResponseStatusCode()});
        std.debug.print("response status text = {s}\n", .{try rest.getResponseStatusText(alloc)});
        std.debug.print("response header: {s}\n", .{try rest.getResponseHeader(alloc)});
        std.debug.print("response body (if any): {s}\n", .{response_str});
        std.debug.print("---\n", .{});
        std.debug.print("LastRequestStartLine: {s}\n", .{try rest.getLastRequestStartLine(alloc)});
        std.debug.print("LastRequestHeader: {s}\n", .{try rest.getLastRequestHeader(alloc)});
        return;
    }

    std.debug.print("Success.\n", .{});
}