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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). Zig

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

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

    var success: bool = false;

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

    const http = try chilkat.Http.init();
    defer http.deinit();
    http.setKeepResponseBody(true);

    // Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
    // See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
    http.setAuthToken("BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN");

    http.setFollowRedirects(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
    const bd = try chilkat.BinData.init();
    defer bd.deinit();
    success = if (http.downloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content", bd)) true else |_| false;
    const status_code = http.getLastStatus();
    if (!success) {
        if (status_code == 0) {
            // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try http.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        } else {
            // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
            std.debug.print("Response status code: {d}\n", .{status_code});
            // Examine the response body.
            std.debug.print("Response body:\n", .{});
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try http.getLastResponseBody(alloc)});
        }

        std.debug.print("Download failed.\n", .{});
    } else {
        std.debug.print("Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data.\n", .{});

        std.debug.print("Number of bytes: {d}\n", .{bd.getNumBytes()});
    }
}