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Send a REST Request with No Body

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBody, which sends a complete request with no request body (such as a GET or DELETE) and returns the response body as text.

Background. This is the simplest full-request convenience method, ideal for retrieval and deletion calls that carry no request payload.

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Use ChilkatAx-win32.pkg

Procedure Test
    Boolean iSuccess
    Handle hoRest
    Boolean iBTls
    Boolean iBAutoReconnect
    String sResponseText
    String sTemp1
    Boolean bTemp1

    Move False To iSuccess

    Get Create (RefClass(cComChilkatRest)) To hoRest
    If (Not(IsComObjectCreated(hoRest))) Begin
        Send CreateComObject of hoRest
    End
    Move True To iBTls
    Move True To iBAutoReconnect
    Get ComConnect Of hoRest "example.com" 443 iBTls iBAutoReconnect To iSuccess
    If (iSuccess = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoRest To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    //  Send a complete request with no request body, such as a GET or DELETE.  The response body is read
    //  as text and returned.
    Get ComFullRequestNoBody Of hoRest "GET" "/api/items/123" To sResponseText
    Get ComLastMethodSuccess Of hoRest To bTemp1
    If (bTemp1 = False) Begin
        Get ComLastErrorText Of hoRest To sTemp1
        Showln sTemp1
        Procedure_Return
    End

    Showln sResponseText


End_Procedure