Send a REST Request with a Streamed Body

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestStream, which sends a complete request whose body is read from a Stream, then returns the response body as text.

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();
    boolean bTls = true;
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    //  The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
    //  may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

    //  The request body is read from a Stream.  Here the stream's source is a local file, which is
    //  appropriate for large uploads because the data need not be held entirely in memory.
    CkStream bodyStream = new CkStream();
    bodyStream.put_SourceFile("qa_data/upload.json");

    rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json");

    //  The 3rd argument is the Stream that supplies the request body.
    String responseText = rest.fullRequestStream("POST","/api/upload",bodyStream);
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, responseText);

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}