Amazon AIMS HTTPS POST

Demonstrates a simple post to the Amazon Inventory Management System (AIMS) API using Chilkat HTTP.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @req int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpRequest', @req OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    DECLARE @success int

    --  Any string unlocks the component for the 1st 30-days.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'UnlockComponent', @success OUT, 'Anything for 30-day trial'
    IF @success <> 1
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        RETURN
      END

    --  Before doing the POST, do a simple GET for the purpose of obtaining a Cookie.
    --  The Cookie contains a session-id and a session-id-time, and these values must
    --  be current.

    --  The CookieDir may be set to "memory" to keep an in-memory cache of cookies.
    --  Alternatively, you may set it to a directory, such as "c:/temp/cookies".  If you do that,
    --  you can visually browse the cookies which will appear as XML files in the CookieDir.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'CookieDir', 'memory'

    --  Tell the HTTP component to save any cookies received.  Also tell the component to
    --  re-send cookies with subsequent GETs and POSTs.
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'SendCookies', 1
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'SaveCookies', 1

    --  Do a GET to retrieve our Cookie...
    DECLARE @html nvarchar(4000)

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'QuickGetStr', @html OUT, 'https://secure.amazon.com/exec/panama/seller-admin/manual-reports/get-report-status'

    --  Build an HTTP POST Request:
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'UsePost', NULL
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @req, 'Path', '/exec/panama/seller-admin/manual-reports/get-report-status'

    --  Setting your login/password causes Chilkat to automatically add the Authorization header:
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'Login', 'YourLoginEmailAddress'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'Password', 'YourPassword'

    --  NOTE: Do not explicitly add the Cookie header.  It is added automatically by Chilkat HTTP.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'Content-Type', 'text/xml'

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'NumberofReports', '2'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @req, 'AddHeader', NULL, 'ReportName', 'OpenListingsLite'

    --  Send the HTTP POST and get the response.  Note: This is a blocking call.
    --  The method does not return until the full HTTP response is received.
    DECLARE @domain nvarchar(4000)

    DECLARE @port int

    DECLARE @ssl int

    SELECT @domain = 'secure.amazon.com'
    SELECT @port = 443
    SELECT @ssl = 1

    DECLARE @resp int

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'SynchronousRequest', @resp OUT, @domain, @port, @ssl, @req
    IF @resp Is NULL 
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT

        PRINT @sTmp0
      END
    ELSE
      BEGIN
        --  Display the XML returned.
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT

        PRINT @sTmp0
      END
END
GO