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REST Upload String

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Example to upload the contents of a string to the Amazon S3 service.

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Chilkat2 Perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
# See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

my $rest = Chilkat2::Rest->new;

# Connect to the Amazon AWS REST server.
my $bTls = 1;
my $port = 443;
my $bAutoReconnect = 1;
my $success = $rest->Connect('s3.amazonaws.com', $port, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Important: For buckets created in regions outside us-east-1,
# there are three important changes that need to be made.
# See Working with S3 Buckets in Non-us-east-1 Regions for the details.
# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# Provide AWS credentials for the REST call.
my $authAws = Chilkat2::AuthAws->new;
$authAws->AccessKey('AWS_ACCESS_KEY');
$authAws->SecretKey('AWS_SECRET_KEY');
$authAws->ServiceName('s3');
$success = $rest->SetAuthAws($authAws);

# Set the bucket name via the HOST header.
# In this case, the bucket name is "chilkat100".
$rest->Host('chilkat100.s3.amazonaws.com');

# Load a text file into memory.
my $fac = Chilkat2::FileAccess->new;
my $fileContents = $fac->ReadEntireTextFile('qa_data/xml/hamlet.xml', 'utf-8');
if (!$fac->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $fac->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# To send the file in gzip or deflate compressed format, set the Content-Encoding request
# header to "gzip" or "deflate".  (this is optional)
$success = $rest->AddHeader('Content-Encoding', 'gzip');

# Indicate the Content-Type of our upload.  (This is optional)
$success = $rest->AddHeader('Content-Type', 'text/xml');

# We can add an "Expect: 100-continue" header so that if the request is rejected
# by the server immediately after receiving the request header, it can respond
# and the client (Chilkat) can avoid sending the file data.
# (this is optional)
$success = $rest->AddHeader('Expect', '100-continue');

# Upload the file to Amazon S3.
my $responseBodyStr = $rest->FullRequestString('PUT', '/hamlet_play.xml', $fileContents);
if (!$rest->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Did we get a 200 response indicating success?
my $statusCode = $rest->ResponseStatusCode;
if ($statusCode != 200) {
    print 'Error response: ', $responseBodyStr, "\n";
    print 'Status code: ', $statusCode, ', Status text: ', $rest->ResponseStatusText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "File successfully uploaded.\n";