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Delphi ActiveX

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.

Chilkat Delphi ActiveX Downloads

Delphi ActiveX
var
success: Integer;
rest: TChilkatRest;
bTls: Integer;
bAutoReconnect: Integer;
responseText: WideString;

begin
success := 0;

rest := TChilkatRest.Create(Self);
bTls := 1;
bAutoReconnect := 1;
success := rest.Connect('example.com',443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;

//  Send a complete request with no request body, such as a GET or DELETE.  The response body is read
//  as text and returned.
responseText := rest.FullRequestNoBody('GET','/api/items/123');
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(rest.LastErrorText);
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add(responseText);