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Glacier Initiate Archive Retrieval Job

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Demonstrates how to initiate an archive retrieval job to download an archive.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.78 or greater.

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Local $bSuccess = False

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

$oRest = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Rest")

; Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server in the desired region.
Local $bTls = True
Local $iPort = 443
Local $bAutoReconnect = True
$bSuccess = $oRest.Connect("glacier.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",$iPort,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)

; Provide AWS credentials.
$oAuthAws = ObjCreate("Chilkat.AuthAws")
$oAuthAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
$oAuthAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"
$oAuthAws.ServiceName = "glacier"
$oAuthAws.Region = "us-west-2"

$bSuccess = $oRest.SetAuthAws($oAuthAws)

; --------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Note: The above REST connection and setup of the AWS credentials
; can be done once.  After connecting, any number of REST calls can be made.
; The "auto reconnect" property passed to rest.Connect indicates that if
; the connection is lost, a REST method call will automatically reconnect
; if needed.
; --------------------------------------------------------------------------

; 
; For more information, see Glacier Initiate Job Post Reference Documentation
; 
$oRest.AddHeader("x-amz-glacier-version","2012-06-01")

; The body of our request will contain this JSON:
; {
;   "Type": "archive-retrieval",
;   "ArchiveId": "NkbByEejwEggmBz2fTHgJrg0XBoDfjP4q6iu87-TjhqG6eGoOY9Z8i1_AUyUsuhPAdTqLHy8pTl5nfCFJmDl2yEZONi5L26Omw12vcs01MNGntHEQL8MBfGlqrEXAMPLEArchiveId"
;   "Description": "My archive description",
;   "SNSTopic": "arn:aws:sns:us-west-2:111111111111:Glacier-ArchiveRetrieval-topic-Example",
;   "Tier" : "Bulk"
; }

; Use this online tool to generate the code from sample JSON: 
; Generate Code to Create JSON

$oJson = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJson.UpdateString("Type","archive-retrieval")
$oJson.UpdateString("ArchiveId","ARCHIVE_ID")
$oJson.UpdateString("Description","My archive description")
; Possible tiers are Bulk, Standard, and Expedited.
$oJson.UpdateString("Tier","Bulk")
; The SNSTopic is optional.  If included, then notification is sent to the SNS topic when the job is complete.
; This example will omit the SNSTopic.

$oSbRequestBody = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oJson.EmitSb($oSbRequestBody)
$oSbResponseBody = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

; Start an archive retrieval in for the vault named "chilkat".
$bSuccess = $oRest.FullRequestSb("POST","/AWS_ACCOUNT_ID/vaults/chilkat/jobs",$oSbRequestBody,$oSbResponseBody)
If ($bSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

Local $iRespStatusCode = $oRest.ResponseStatusCode
If ($iRespStatusCode >= 400) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Response Status Code = " & $iRespStatusCode & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response Header:" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oRest.ResponseHeader & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Response Body:" & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite($oSbResponseBody.GetAsString() & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; Success is indicated by a 202 response status with an empty response body.
ConsoleWrite("response status code = " & $iRespStatusCode & @CRLF)

; If successful, the response header looks like this.
; The Location and x-amz-job-id are two items of information we may wish to save..

; HTTP/1.1 202 Accepted
; x-amzn-RequestId: AAABZpJrTyioDC_HsOmHae8EZp_uBSJr6cnGOLKp_XJCl-Q
; Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2017 12:00:00 GMT 
; Location: /111122223333/vaults/examplevault/jobs/HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
; x-amz-job-id: HkF9p6o7yjhFx-K3CGl6fuSm6VzW9T7esGQfco8nUXVYwS0jlb5gq1JZ55yHgt5vP54ZShjoQzQVVh7vEXAMPLEjobID
; 

Local $sJobId = $oRest.ResponseHdrByName("x-amz-job-id")
ConsoleWrite("x-amz-job-id = " & $sJobId & @CRLF)

Local $sLocation = $oRest.ResponseHdrByName("Location")
ConsoleWrite("Location = " & $sLocation & @CRLF)