Use an Existing Socket Connection for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.UseConnection, which supplies an already-connected Socket as the transport for REST requests instead of calling Connect. This is useful when the connection must be established with specific socket options or shared across objects.

#include <C_CkSocket.h>
#include <C_CkRest.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkSocket socket;
    BOOL bSsl;
    HCkRest rest;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    const char *responseText;

    success = FALSE;

    //  Demonstrates supplying an already-connected socket for the REST transport.  This is useful when
    //  the connection must be established with specific socket options, or reused across objects.

    socket = CkSocket_Create();
    bSsl = TRUE;
    success = CkSocket_Connect(socket,"example.com",443,bSsl,5000);
    if (success != TRUE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkSocket_lastErrorText(socket));
        CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
        return;
    }

    rest = CkRest_Create();

    //  Use the connected socket as the transport.  The 2nd argument enables automatic reconnection.
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRest_UseConnection(rest,socket,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    responseText = CkRest_fullRequestNoBody(rest,"GET","/api/status");
    if (CkRest_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) == FALSE) {
        printf("%s\n",CkRest_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
        CkRest_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    printf("%s\n",responseText);


    CkSocket_Dispose(socket);
    CkRest_Dispose(rest);

    }