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Glacier Download Archive

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Demonstrates how to download an Amazon Glacier archive. Downloading a Glacier archive is a two step process. First an archive retrieval job is initiated. After it completes, the job output is downloaded (i.e. the archive contents are downloaded.)

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

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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();

    // 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 Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
    const b_tls = true;
    const port = 443;
    const b_auto_reconnect = true;
    try rest.connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com", port, b_tls, b_auto_reconnect);

    // Provide AWS credentials.
    const auth_aws = try chilkat.AuthAws.init();
    defer auth_aws.deinit();
    auth_aws.setAccessKey("AWS_ACCESS_KEY");
    auth_aws.setSecretKey("AWS_SECRET_KEY");
    auth_aws.setServiceName("glacier");
    auth_aws.setRegion("us-west-2");

    try rest.setAuthAws(auth_aws);

    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
    // can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
    // The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
    // the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
    // if needed.
    // --------------------------------------------------------------------------

    // For more information, see Glacier Retrieve Job Output Reference Documentation
    //
    rest.addHeader("x-amz-glacier-version", "2012-06-01") catch {};

    // To download an archive, we'll make several method calls:
    // 1) Send the HTTPS GET request.
    // 2) Get the response body.
    // 3) If the response status code indicates success, stream the response body (i.e the archive data) to a file.
    // 4) If the response status code indicates an error, get the JSON error response.

    // Send the GET request.
    rest.sendReqNoBody("GET", "/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs/JOB_ID/output") catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // Read the response header.
    const response_status_code = rest.readResponseHeader();
    if (response_status_code < 0) {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    }

    std.debug.print("Response status code = {d}\n", .{response_status_code});

    // We expect a 200 response status if the archive data is coming.
    // Otherwise, we'll get a JSON response body with an error message(or no response body).
    if (response_status_code == 200) {
        const body_stream = try chilkat.Stream.init();
        defer body_stream.deinit();

        // The stream's sink will be a file.
        body_stream.setSinkFile("qa_output/archiveData.dat");

        // Read the response body to the stream.
        rest.readRespBodyStream(body_stream, true) catch {
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
            return;
        };

        std.debug.print("Successfully received the archive file.\n", .{});
    } else {
        const json_error = rest.readRespBodyString(alloc) catch "";
        if (!rest.getLastMethodSuccess()) {
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        } else {
            std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{json_error});
        }
    }
}