Read a Resource from an MCP Server

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Demonstrates Mcp.ReadResource, which calls the MCP resources/read method for a resource identified by URI and places the contents into a JsonObject.

Tip: Code to parse the returned JSON can be generated with Chilkat's online tool at https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse.

use chilkat();

$success = 0;

$mcp = chilkat::CkMcp->new();

#  Connect to a public MCP (Model Context Protocol) server over its Streamable HTTP endpoint.  The
#  Microsoft Learn MCP server is public and requires no authentication.
$success = $mcp->Connect("https://learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp");
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mcp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

#  Read a specific resource by its URI.  A resource URI is obtained from the "resources" array
#  returned by ListResources.  The resource contents are placed in the JsonObject.
$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $mcp->ReadResource("file:///example/resource.txt",$json);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $mcp->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json->put_EmitCompact(0);
print $json->emit() . "\r\n";
#  JSON parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
#  https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse