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HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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C
#include <C_CkHttp.h>
#include <C_CkJsonObject.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkHttp http;
    const char *responseText;
    HCkJsonObject json;

    success = FALSE;

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

    http = CkHttp_Create();

    // Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
    // Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
    CkHttp_putAuthToken(http,"Your access token");

    // Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
    responseText = CkHttp_quickGetStr(http,"https://www.example.com/something");
    if (CkHttp_getLastMethodSuccess(http) == FALSE) {
        // This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
        printf("%s\n",CkHttp_lastErrorText(http));
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        return;
    }

    // If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
    // the response body.
    printf("Response status code = %d\n",CkHttp_getLastStatus(http));
    if (CkHttp_getLastStatus(http) != 200) {
        // Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.
        printf("%s\n",responseText);
        CkHttp_Dispose(http);
        return;
    }

    // If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
    // if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
    json = CkJsonObject_Create();
    CkJsonObject_putEmitCompact(json,TRUE);
    CkJsonObject_Load(json,responseText);
    printf("%s\n",CkJsonObject_emit(json));

    // Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
    // Generate Parsing Code from JSON

    // ...
    // ...


    CkHttp_Dispose(http);
    CkJsonObject_Dispose(json);

    }