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Lua Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

VoiceBase -- Compound Expression Search

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Demonstrates how to do a VoiceBase compound expression search. See VoiceBase Search for more details about Search.

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local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example assumes the Chilkat HTTP API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

-- Insert your Bearer token here:
local accessToken = "VOICEBASE_TOKEN"

local http = chilkat.Http.new()

local req = chilkat.HttpRequest.new()
req.http_verb = "GET"
req.path = "/v2-beta/media"

-- Add the access (bearer) token to the request, which is a header
-- having the following format:
-- Authorization: Bearer <userAccessToken>
local sbAuth = chilkat.StringBuilder.new()
sbAuth:append("Bearer ")
sbAuth:append(accessToken)
req:add_header("Authorization", sbAuth:get_as_string())

-- Search for media containing the terms any of the terms "test", "number", or "three"
req:add_param("query", "\"test\" OR \"number\" OR \"three\"")

local resp = chilkat.HttpResponse.new()
local success = http:http_sreq("apis.voicebase.com", 443, true, req, resp)
if not success then
    print(http.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Examine the response status code and body.
print("Response status code = " .. resp.status_code)

-- The response should be JSON, even if an error.
local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
json:load(resp.body_str)
json.emit_compact = false

-- A successful response will have a status code = 200
if resp.status_code ~= 200 then
    print("Failed.")
else
    print("mediaId: " .. json:string_of("mediaId"))
    print("href: " .. json:string_of("_links.self.href"))
    print("status: " .. json:string_of("status"))
    print("Success.")
end

-- See the sample JSON response below..

-- Iterate over the JSON like this:
local dt = chilkat.DateTime.new()
local dtObj = chilkat.DtObj.new()

local mediaCount = json:size_of_array("media")
local i = 0
while i < mediaCount do
    json.i = i

    print("-- " .. i .. " --")
    print("  mediaId: " .. json:string_of("media[i].mediaId"))
    print("  status: " .. json:string_of("media[i].status"))
    print("  contentType: " .. json:string_of("media[i].metadata.contentType"))
    print("  milliseconds: " .. json:string_of("media[i].metadata.length.milliseconds"))
    print("  descriptive: " .. json:string_of("media[i].metadata.length.descriptive"))
    local dateCreated = json:string_of("media[i].dateCreated")
    dt:set_from_timestamp(dateCreated)

    local localTime = true
    dt:to_dt_obj(localTime, dtObj)

    print("  " .. dtObj.month .. "/" .. dtObj.day .. "  " .. dtObj.hour .. ":" .. dtObj.minute)

    i = i + 1
end

print("Finished.")

-- A sample JSON response:

-- {
--   "_links": {
--     "self": {
--       "href": "/v2-beta/media"
--     }
--   },
--   "media": [
--     {
--       "mediaId": "26063536-FFFF-4020-93ba-0878112d834b",
--       "status": "finished",
--       "metadata": {
--         "contentType": "audio/x-wav",
--         "length": {
--           "milliseconds": 85141,
--           "descriptive": "85.0 sec"
--         }
--       },
--       "dateCreated": "2017-01-19T16:49:32.000Z"
--     },
--     {
--       "mediaId": "8163fbbc-FFFF-4794-aa95-045420bb321d",
--       "status": "finished",
--       "metadata": {
--         "contentType": "audio/x-wav",
--         "length": {
--           "milliseconds": 65342,
--           "descriptive": "65.0 sec"
--         }
--       },
--       "dateCreated": "2017-01-19T20:08:49.000Z"
--     },
-- ...
-- ...
--     {
--       "mediaId": "b01e27be-FFFF-4b62-8802-6dc66a75c4d3",
--       "status": "finished",
--       "metadata": {
--         "contentType": "audio/x-wav",
--         "length": {
--           "milliseconds": 11581,
--           "descriptive": "11.0 sec"
--         }
--       },
--       "dateCreated": "2017-02-06T20:55:43.000Z"
--     }
--   ]
-- }