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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.

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Chilkat2 Java
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.ChilkatException;
import com.chilkatsoft.chilkat2.Rest;

public class ChilkatExample {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Rest rest = new Rest();
        boolean bTls = true;
        boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
        String responseText;
        try {
            rest.connect("example.com", 443, bTls, bAutoReconnect);

            // 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");
        } catch (ChilkatException e) {
            System.out.println(e.getLastErrorText());
            return;
        }

        System.out.println(responseText);
    }
}