Download a Binary REST Response into BinData

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd, which sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a BinData.

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.

import sys
import chilkat2

success = False

rest = chilkat2.Rest()
bTls = True
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success == False):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

# 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.

# FullRequestNoBodyBd sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a
# BinData.  This is appropriate when the response is binary, such as an image or file download.
bdResponse = chilkat2.BinData()
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd("GET","/api/images/1",bdResponse)
if (success == False):
    print(rest.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

bSaved = bdResponse.WriteFile("qa_output/image.png")
if (bSaved != True):
    print("Failed to save the response body.")
    sys.exit()

print("Downloaded " + str(bdResponse.NumBytes) + " bytes.")