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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). Lianja

llSuccess = .F.

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

loHttp = createobject("CkHttp")
loHttp.KeepResponseBody = .T.

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

loHttp.FollowRedirects = .T.

// 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
loBd = createobject("CkBinData")
llSuccess = loHttp.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content",loBd)
lnStatusCode = loHttp.LastStatus
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    if (lnStatusCode = 0) then
        // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    else
        // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        ? "Response status code: " + str(lnStatusCode)
        // Examine the response body.
        ? "Response body:"
        ? loHttp.LastResponseBody
    endif

    ? "Download failed."

else
    ? "Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data."

    ? "Number of bytes: " + str(loBd.NumBytes)
endif



release loHttp
release loBd