B4X

Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file). B4X

Dim success As Boolean = False

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

Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")
http.KeepResponseBody = True

'  Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
'  See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
http.AuthToken = "BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN"

http.FollowRedirects = True

'  The file is specified by the file ID.
'  In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
'  The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
Dim bd As ChilkatBinData
bd.Initialize
success = http.DownloadBd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content", bd)
Dim statusCode As Int = http.LastStatus
If success = False Then
    If statusCode = 0 Then
        '  Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Else
        '  We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        Log("Response status code: " & statusCode)
        '  Examine the response body.
        Log("Response body:")
        Log(http.LastResponseBody)
    End If

    Log("Download failed.")

Else
    Log("Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data.")

    Log("Number of bytes: " & bd.NumBytes)
End If