Dart

Download a Text File into a String

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Downloads a text file to a string variable. Dart

import 'package:chilkat/chilkat.dart';

void main() {
  // Azure File Service Example: Download Text File into String
  // See:  https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/rest/api/storageservices/get-file

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

  final rest = CkRest();

  // Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
  final bTls = true;
  final port = 443;
  final bAutoReconnect = true;
  // In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
  try {
    rest.connect('chilkat.file.core.windows.net', port, bTls, bAutoReconnect);
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST calls.
  final azAuth = CkAuthAzureStorage();
  azAuth.accessKey = 'AZURE_ACCESS_KEY';
  // The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
  azAuth.account = 'chilkat';
  azAuth.scheme = 'SharedKey';
  azAuth.service = 'File';
  // This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
  azAuth.xMsVersion = '2021-08-06';
  rest.setAuthAzureStorage(azAuth);

  // Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
  // headers: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
  // are automatically set by Chilkat.

  // Send a GET request to download the file "hamlet.xml" to a StringBuilder object.
  // (The share name is "pip")
  final sbFileContents = CkStringBuilder();
  try {
    rest.fullRequestNoBodySb('GET', '/pip/xmlFiles/hamlet.xml', sbFileContents);
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // When successful, the response status will be 200.
  // If a non-success status code is returned, then the sbFileContents actually contains the XML error message.
  if (rest.responseStatusCode != 200) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print('response status code = ${rest.responseStatusCode}');
    print('response status text = ${rest.responseStatusText}');
    print('response header: ${rest.responseHeader}');
    print('response body (if any): ${sbFileContents.getAsString()}');
    print('---');
    print('LastRequestStartLine: ${rest.lastRequestStartLine}');
    print('LastRequestHeader: ${rest.lastRequestHeader}');
    return;
  }

  print('Length of downloaded string = ${sbFileContents.length}');

  final strFileContents = sbFileContents.getAsString();
  print(strFileContents);

  sbFileContents.writeFile('qa_output/hamlet.xml', 'utf-8', false);
}