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Firebase PUT - Writing Data

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Demonstrates how to PUT new data to a Firebase JSON database. The data used in this example is at Chilkat Firebase Pigs Database, and is shown here:

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LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loFac
LOCAL lcAccessToken
LOCAL loRest
LOCAL loAuthGoogle
LOCAL loPrng
LOCAL lcPushId
LOCAL loPigRecord
LOCAL loPath
LOCAL lcJsonResponse

lnSuccess = 0

* Demonstrates how to PUT new data to a Firebase JSON database.

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

* This example assumes a JWT authentication token, if required, has been previously obtained.
* See Get Firebase Access Token from JSON Service Account Private Key for sample code.

* Load the previously obtained Firebase access token into a string.
loFac = CreateObject('Chilkat.FileAccess')
lcAccessToken = loFac.ReadEntireTextFile("qa_data/tokens/firebaseToken.txt","utf-8")
IF (loFac.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loFac.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFac
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loRest = CreateObject('Chilkat.Rest')

* Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet).
* Once connected, any number of requests may be sent.  It is not necessary to explicitly
* call Connect before each request.  
lnSuccess = loRest.Connect("chilkat.firebaseio.com",443,1,1)
IF (lnSuccess <> 1) THEN
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFac
    RELEASE loRest
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loAuthGoogle = CreateObject('Chilkat.AuthGoogle')
loAuthGoogle.AccessToken = lcAccessToken
loRest.SetAuthGoogle(loAuthGoogle)

* Chilkat's sample data (pig-rescue data) is publicly readable at: https://chilkat.firebaseio.com/.json
* This data is publicly readable, but not writable.  You'll need to 
* run against your own database..

* Generate a new push ID.
loPrng = CreateObject('Chilkat.Prng')
lcPushId = loPrng.FirebasePushId()

* We're going to add a new pig with just the name.
loPigRecord = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loPigRecord.AppendString("name","William")

loPath = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')
loPath.Append("/pig-rescue/animal/")
loPath.Append(lcPushId)
loPath.Append(".json")

* The string content of the last arg passed is  {"name":"William"} 
lcJsonResponse = loRest.FullRequestString("PUT",loPath.GetAsString(),loPigRecord.Emit())
IF (loRest.LastMethodSuccess <> 1) THEN
    * Something happened in the communications (either no request was sent, or no response was received.
    * (The Chilkat REST API also has lower-level methods where an app can send the request in one call,
    * and then receive the response in another call.)
    ? loRest.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFac
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loAuthGoogle
    RELEASE loPrng
    RELEASE loPigRecord
    RELEASE loPath
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Check the response status code.   A 200 response status indicates success.
IF (loRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) THEN
    ? loRest.ResponseStatusText
    ? lcJsonResponse
    ? "Failed."
    RELEASE loFac
    RELEASE loRest
    RELEASE loAuthGoogle
    RELEASE loPrng
    RELEASE loPigRecord
    RELEASE loPath
    CANCEL
ENDIF

? lcJsonResponse
? "Success."

* Note: In many of the Chilkat examples, you may notice strange ways
* of doing something that should be simpler and shorter.  For example,
* building the path (above) could've been written differently,
* with some simple string concatenation.
* 
* The reason is that the Chilkat examples are written in a 
* proprietary "example code" scripting language,
* and then automatically generated to each of the different programming
* languages you see on example-code.com.  The code generation is
* limited in what it can do.  For example, string concatentation
* is not yet a feature of the "example code" scripting language (as of May 2016), 
* and therefore you won't see the use of a programming language's string
* concatentation operators in any example.  
* 

RELEASE loFac
RELEASE loRest
RELEASE loAuthGoogle
RELEASE loPrng
RELEASE loPigRecord
RELEASE loPath