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B4X Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

eBay -- Upload Bulk Data using FileTransferService

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Demonstrates how to upload your data file using the eBay File Transfer API.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

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

'  Use a previously obtained access token.  The token should look something like this:
'  "AgAAAA**AQA ..."
Dim accessToken As String = "EBAY_ACCESS_TOKEN"

Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")

Dim apiCall As String = "uploadFile"
Dim fileAttachmentUuid As String = "<urn:uuid:bb47b86a237311e793ae92361f002671>"
Dim xmlUuid As String = "<urn:uuid:bb47b766237311e793ae92361f002671>"

Dim req As ChilkatHttpRequest
req.Initialize

req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.Path = "/FileTransferService"

Dim sbContentType As ChilkatStringBuilder
sbContentType.Initialize
sbContentType.Append("multipart/related; type=" & Chr(34) & "application/xop+xml" & Chr(34) & "; start=" & Chr(34) & "XMLUUID" & Chr(34) & "; start-info=" & Chr(34) & "text/xml" & Chr(34))
Dim replaceCount As Int = sbContentType.Replace("XMLUUID", xmlUuid)
req.ContentType = sbContentType.GetAsString

req.AddHeader("X-EBAY-SOA-SERVICE-NAME", "FileTransferService")
req.AddHeader("X-EBAY-SOA-OPERATION-NAME", apiCall)
req.AddHeader("X-EBAY-SOA-SECURITY-TOKEN", accessToken)
req.AddHeader("X-EBAY-SOA-REQUEST-DATA-FORMAT", "XML")
req.AddHeader("X-EBAY-SOA-RESPONSE-DATA-FORMAT", "XML")
req.AddHeader("User-Agent", "AnythingYouWant")

Dim pathToFileOnDisk1 As String = "qa_data/ebay/uploadFileRequest.xml"
success = req.AddFileForUpload("uploadFileRequest.xml", pathToFileOnDisk1)
If success = False Then
    Log(req.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim pathToFileOnDisk2 As String = "qa_data/ebay/BulkDataExchangeRequests.gz"
success = req.AddFileForUpload("BulkDataExchangeRequests.gz", pathToFileOnDisk2)
If success = False Then
    Log(req.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Add sub-headers for each file in the request.
req.AddSubHeader(0, "Content-Type", "application/xop+xml; charset=UTF-8; type=" & Chr(34) & "text/xml" & Chr(34))
req.AddSubHeader(0, "Content-Transfer-Encoding", "binary")
req.AddSubHeader(0, "Content-ID", xmlUuid)
req.AddSubHeader(1, "Content-Type", "application/octet-stream")
req.AddSubHeader(1, "Content-Transfer-Encoding", "binary")
req.AddSubHeader(1, "Content-ID", fileAttachmentUuid)

Dim resp As ChilkatHttpResponse
resp.Initialize
success = http.HttpSReq("storage.sandbox.ebay.com", 443, True, req, resp)
If success = False Then
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Log("Response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)

Dim xml As ChilkatXml
xml.Initialize
xml.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr)

If resp.StatusCode <> 200 Then
    Log(xml.GetXml)
    Log("Failed.")
    Return
End If


'  We still may have a failure.  The XML needs to be checked.
'  A failed response might look like this:

'  	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
'  	<uploadFileResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
'  	    <ack>Failure</ack>
'  	    <errorMessage>
'  	        <error>
'  	            <errorId>1</errorId>
'  	            <domain>Marketplace</domain>
'  	            <severity>Error</severity>
'  	            <category>Application</category>
'  	            <message>Task Reference Id is invalid</message>
'  	            <subdomain>FileTransfer</subdomain>
'  	        </error>
'  	    </errorMessage>
'  	    <version>1.1.0</version>
'  	    <timestamp>2017-04-18T01:05:27.475Z</timestamp>
'  	</uploadFileResponse>

'  A successful response looks like this:

'  	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
'  	<uploadFileResponse xmlns="http://www.ebay.com/marketplace/services">
'  	    <ack>Success</ack>
'  	    <version>1.1.0</version>
'  	    <timestamp>2017-04-18T01:22:47.853Z</timestamp>
'  	</uploadFileResponse>

Log(xml.GetXml)

'  Get the "ack" to see if it's "Failure" or "Success"
If xml.ChildContentMatches("ack", "Success", False) Then
    Log("Success.")
Else
    Log("Failure.")
End If