Read a Resource from an MCP Server

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Demonstrates Mcp.ReadResource, which calls the MCP resources/read method for a resource identified by URI and places the contents into a JsonObject.

Tip: Code to parse the returned JSON can be generated with Chilkat's online tool at https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse.

#include <CkMcp.h>
#include <CkJsonObject.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

    CkMcp mcp;

    //  Connect to a public MCP (Model Context Protocol) server over its Streamable HTTP endpoint.  The
    //  Microsoft Learn MCP server is public and requires no authentication.
    success = mcp.Connect("https://learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp");
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << mcp.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  Read a specific resource by its URI.  A resource URI is obtained from the "resources" array
    //  returned by ListResources.  The resource contents are placed in the JsonObject.
    CkJsonObject json;
    success = mcp.ReadResource("file:///example/resource.txt",json);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << mcp.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    json.put_EmitCompact(false);
    std::cout << json.emit() << "\r\n";
    //  JSON parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
    //  https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse
    }