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Send a Staged REST Request with No Body

Demonstrates Rest.SendReqNoBody, which sends a request without a body as the first step of the staged request model. After it succeeds, the response header and body are read separately.

Background. The staged request model separates sending from reading: a SendReq method transmits the request, ReadResponseHeader reads the status line and headers, and a ReadResp method reads the body. This gives fine control over large or streamed messages compared with the single-call full-request methods.

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var
success: Boolean;
rest: HCkRest;
bTls: Boolean;
bAutoReconnect: Boolean;
statusCode: Integer;
responseBody: PWideChar;

begin
success := False;

rest := CkRest_Create();
bTls := True;
bAutoReconnect := True;
success := CkRest_Connect(rest,'example.com',443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
    Exit;
  end;

//  Send a request without a request body.  This is a low-level send: after it succeeds, read the
//  response header and body separately.
success := CkRest_SendReqNoBody(rest,'GET','/api/items/123');
if (success = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
    Exit;
  end;

//  After sending, read the response status line and header fields.  The return value is the HTTP
//  status code, or -1 if no response was received.
statusCode := CkRest_ReadResponseHeader(rest);
if (statusCode < 0) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add('Response status code: ' + IntToStr(statusCode));

//  Read the response body as text.
responseBody := CkRest__readRespBodyString(rest);
if (CkRest_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) = False) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
    Exit;
  end;
Memo1.Lines.Add(responseBody);

CkRest_Dispose(rest);