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Use an Existing Socket Connection for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.UseConnection, which supplies an already-connected Socket as the transport for REST requests instead of calling Connect. This is useful when the connection must be established with specific socket options or shared across objects.

Background. Rest can operate over any connected socket. The second argument enables automatic reconnection so a dropped connection is transparently re-established between requests.

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Java
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

public class ChilkatExample {

  static {
    try {
        System.loadLibrary("chilkat");
    } catch (UnsatisfiedLinkError e) {
      System.err.println("Native code library failed to load.\n" + e);
      System.exit(1);
    }
  }

  public static void main(String argv[])
  {
    boolean success = false;

    //  Demonstrates supplying an already-connected socket for the REST transport.  This is useful when
    //  the connection must be established with specific socket options, or reused across objects.

    CkSocket socket = new CkSocket();
    boolean bSsl = true;
    success = socket.Connect("example.com",443,bSsl,5000);
    if (success != true) {
        System.out.println(socket.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    //  Use the connected socket as the transport.  The 2nd argument enables automatic reconnection.
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.UseConnection(socket,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == false) {
        System.out.println(rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    String responseText = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/status");
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        System.out.println(rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    System.out.println(responseText);
  }
}