Read the REST Response Body in Chunks

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Demonstrates Rest.ReadRespChunkBd, which reads the response body one chunk at a time, appending each chunk to a BinData. A return value of 0 signals the body is complete, while -1 indicates a read failure.

bool success = false;

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();
bool bTls = true;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

success = rest.SendReqNoBody("GET","/api/largefile");
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

int statusCode = rest.ReadResponseHeader();
if (statusCode < 0) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

//  Read the response body in chunks, appending each chunk to the BinData.  Each call waits until at
//  least the requested number of bytes is available, unless the response ends first.  A return value
//  of 0 means the final bytes were returned and the body is complete; -1 indicates a read failure.
Chilkat.BinData bdBody = new Chilkat.BinData();
int chunkResult = rest.ReadRespChunkBd(8192,bdBody);
while (chunkResult > 0) {
    chunkResult = rest.ReadRespChunkBd(8192,bdBody);
}

if (chunkResult < 0) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Received " + Convert.ToString(bdBody.NumBytes) + " bytes.");