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Get Container Metadata

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Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to get the user-defined metadata of a container. Dart

import 'package:chilkat/chilkat.dart';

void main() {
  // Azure Blob Service Example: Get Container User-Defined Metadata
  // See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee691976.aspx

  // 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.blob.core.windows.net', port, bTls, bAutoReconnect);
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
  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 = 'Blob';
  // 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.

  // The expected success response is a 200 response status code with no response body.
  // In this example, we are getting the metadata of the container named "mycontainer".
  final String responseStr;
  try {
    responseStr = rest.fullRequestNoBody('GET', '/mycontainer?restype=container&comp=metadata');
  } on ChilkatException catch (e) {
    print(e.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 200 response status code,
  // with no response body.

  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): $responseStr');
    print('---');
    print('LastRequestStartLine: ${rest.lastRequestStartLine}');
    print('LastRequestHeader: ${rest.lastRequestHeader}');
    return;
  }

  // The user-defined metadata is located in the response header.
  // The full response header can be obtained like this:
  print('response header: ${rest.responseHeader}');
  print('--');

  // Metadata headers begin with "x-ms-meta-"
  // Individual response header fields can be retrieved like this:
  print('x-ms-meta-Category: ${rest.responseHdrByName('x-ms-meta-Category')}');
  print('x-ms-meta-Resolution: ${rest.responseHdrByName('x-ms-meta-Resolution')}');

  print('Success.');
}