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.

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- 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.

local socket = chilkat.Socket.new()
local bSsl = true
local success = socket:connect("example.com", 443, bSsl, 5000)
if not success then
    print(socket.last_error_text)
    return
end

local rest = chilkat.Rest.new()

-- Use the connected socket as the transport.  The 2nd argument enables automatic reconnection.
local bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest:use_connection(socket, bAutoReconnect)
if not success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

local responseText = rest:full_request_no_body("GET", "/api/status")
if not rest.last_method_success then
    print(rest.last_error_text)
    return
end

print(responseText)