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Async Task Chain (another example)

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Demonstrates using a task chain to run a sequence of FTP tasks asynchronously.

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#include <CkFtp2W.h>
#include <CkTaskChainW.h>
#include <CkTaskW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    success = false;

    CkFtp2W ftp;

    ftp.put_Hostname(L"ftp.example.com");
    ftp.put_Username(L"login");
    ftp.put_Password(L"password");

    // Connect and login to the FTP server.
    success = ftp.Connect();
    if (success != true) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    CkTaskChainW taskChain;

    // Create a task to change to the remote directory where the file will be uploaded.
    CkTaskW *task = ftp.ChangeRemoteDirAsync(L"junk");
    if (ftp.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    // Add this task to the task chain.
    success = taskChain.Append(*task);
    delete task;

    // Create a task to upload a file.
    const wchar_t *localFilename = L"c:/temp/hamlet.xml";
    const wchar_t *remoteFilename = L"hamlet.xml";

    task = ftp.PutFileAsync(localFilename,remoteFilename);
    if (ftp.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",ftp.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    // Add this task to the task chain.
    success = taskChain.Append(*task);
    delete task;

    // Start the task chain running in a background thread.
    // Each task is run one after the other (on the same background thread) until all tasks have completed.
    // The task chain will stop at the first task that fails.
    taskChain.put_StopOnFailedTask(true);
    success = taskChain.Run();
    if (!success) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",taskChain.lastErrorText());
        return;
    }

    // The application is now free to do anything else
    // while the FTP commands are being run...

    // For this example, we'll simply sleep and periodically
    // check to see if the taskchain if finished. 
    while (taskChain.get_Finished() != true) {

        // Sleep 100 ms.
        taskChain.SleepMs(100);

    }

    // A finished task chain could be one that was canceled, aborted, or truly finished.  

    // If the task chain "completed", then it ran to completion.  A "completed" task will
    // have a StatusInt equal to 7.   If the task finished, but was not completed, then it must've
    // been aborted or canceled:
    if (taskChain.get_StatusInt() != 7) {
        wprintf(L"Task did not complete.\n");
        wprintf(L"task chain status: %s\n",taskChain.status());
        return;
    }

    // If we got to this point, the ChangeRemoteDir and PutFile were successful.
    // We can visually verify by examining the LastErrorText that was recorded for each
    // of these method calls..
    int numTasks = taskChain.get_NumTasks();
    int taskIdx = 0;

    while ((taskIdx < numTasks)) {

        task = taskChain.GetTask(taskIdx);

        // Examine the status of this task, and the ResultErrorText
        // (the ResultErrorText is the ftp.LastErrorText captured for FTP method called by the task).
        // Everything should indicate success.
        wprintf(L"task status: %s\n",task->status());
        wprintf(L"task log: %s\n",task->resultErrorText());

        delete task;

        taskIdx = taskIdx + 1;
    }

    success = ftp.Disconnect();
    }