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Create a Google Cloud Storage Bucket

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Demonstrates how to create a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

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import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.DateTime;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Http;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.HttpResponse;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.JsonObject;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.StringBuilder;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
        // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

        // This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the
        // scope "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"

        // In this example, Get Google Cloud Storage OAuth2 Access Token,
        // the service account access token was saved to a text file.  This example fetches the access token from the file..
        StringBuilder sbToken = new StringBuilder();
        sbToken.loadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleCloudStorageAccessToken.txt", "utf-8");

        // ---- Step 1
        // Create a JSON that contains the following information, replacing [VALUES_IN_BRACKETS] with the appropriate values:

        // {
        //   "name": "[BUCKET_NAME]",
        //   "location": "[BUCKET_LOCATION]",
        //   "storageClass": "[STORAGE_CLASS]"
        // }

        JsonObject json = new JsonObject();
        json.updateString("name", "chilkat-ocean");
        json.updateString("location", "us");
        json.updateString("storageClass", "multi_regional");

        // ---- Step 2
        // Send a POST equivalent to this curl command

        // curl -X POST --data-binary @[JSON_FILE_NAME].json \
        //      -H "Authorization: Bearer [OAUTH2_TOKEN]" \
        //      -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
        //      "https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b?project=[PROJECT_ID]"

        Http http = new Http();
        http.setAuthToken(sbToken.getAsString());

        http.setUrlVar("project_id", "chilkat-176611");
        String url = "https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b?project={$project_id}";
        HttpResponse resp = new HttpResponse();
        try {
            http.httpJson("POST", url, json, "application/json", resp);
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        int responseCode = resp.getStatusCode();
        if (responseCode == 401) {
            System.out.println(resp.getBodyStr());
            System.out.println("If invalid credentials, then it is likely the access token expired.");
            System.out.println("Your app should automatically fetch a new access token and re-try.");
            return;
        }

        System.out.println("Response code: " + responseCode);
        System.out.println("Response body");
        System.out.println(resp.getBodyStr());

        // A successful response looks like this:
        // Response code: 200
        // Response body
        // {
        //  "kind": "storage#bucket",
        //  "id": "chilkat-ocean",
        //  "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/chilkat-ocean",
        //  "projectNumber": "933037264567",
        //  "name": "chilkat-ocean",
        //  "timeCreated": "2017-08-13T12:27:10.811Z",
        //  "updated": "2017-08-13T12:27:10.811Z",
        //  "metageneration": "1",
        //  "location": "US",
        //  "storageClass": "MULTI_REGIONAL",
        //  "etag": "CAE="
        // }
        //

        // Parse the JSON response:
        JsonObject jsonResp = new JsonObject();
        jsonResp.load(resp.getBodyStr());

        System.out.println("name: " + jsonResp.stringOf("name"));
        System.out.println("timeCreated: " + jsonResp.stringOf("timeCreated"));

        // Parse the date/time created.
        DateTime dt = new DateTime();
        dt.setFromTimestamp(jsonResp.stringOf("timeCreated"));
        // ...
    }
}