Perl

Twilio: Send SMS using Basic Authentication

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Demonstrates how to use Twilio to send an SMS message using Basic authentication. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# Demonstrates how to use Basic Authentication in a REST API call for Twilio.
# Sends an SMS text message..

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

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

# Use Basic Authentication.
# Your Twilio Account SID is the username.
# Your Twilio Auth Token is the password.
my $success = $rest->SetAuthBasic('TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID', 'TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN');

# Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet) to Twilio.
my $bTls = 1;
my $port = 443;
my $bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('api.twilio.com', $port, $bTls, $bAutoReconnect);
if (!$success) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# Provide the information for the SMS text message:
$success = $rest->AddQueryParam('To', '+16518675309');
$success = $rest->AddQueryParam('From', '+15005550006');
$success = $rest->AddQueryParam('Body', 'Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!');
$success = $rest->AddQueryParam('MediaUrl', 'http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1075/1404618563_3ed9a44a3a.jpg');

# Send the SMS text message.
# Your Twilio Account SID is part of the URI path:
my $responseJson = $rest->FullRequestFormUrlEncoded('POST', '/2010-04-01/Accounts/TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID/Messages.json');
if (!$rest->LastMethodSuccess) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# When successful, the response status code will equal 201.
if ($rest->ResponseStatusCode != 201) {
    # Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    print 'response status code = ', $rest->ResponseStatusCode, "\n";
    print 'response status text = ', $rest->ResponseStatusText, "\n";
    print 'response header: ', $rest->ResponseHeader, "\n";
    print 'response body (if any): ', $responseJson, "\n";
    print "---\n";
    print 'LastRequestStartLine: ', $rest->LastRequestStartLine, "\n";
    print 'LastRequestHeader: ', $rest->LastRequestHeader, "\n";
    exit;
}

# The response is JSON.  We'll show how to get a few bits of information from it.
# A full sample JSON response is shown below..

my $json = Chilkat2::JsonObject->new;
$json->EmitCompact(0);
$success = $json->Load($responseJson);

# First show the entire JSON.
print $json->Emit(), "\n";

# Now get some individual pieces of information:
print 'sid: ', $json->StringOf('sid'), "\n";
print 'body: ', $json->StringOf('body'), "\n";
print 'media: ', $json->StringOf('subresource_uris.media'), "\n";

print "Success.\n";

# Sample JSON response:

# {
#   "sid": "MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3",
#   "date_created": null,
#   "date_updated": null,
#   "date_sent": null,
#   "account_sid": "112e1111e0151133d11112101111d1111",
#   "to": "+16518675309",
#   "from": "+15005550006",
#   "messaging_service_sid": null,
#   "body": "Sent from your Twilio trial account - Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!",
#   "status": "queued",
#   "num_segments": "1",
#   "num_media": "0",
#   "direction": "outbound-api",
#   "api_version": "2010-04-01",
#   "price": null,
#   "price_unit": "USD",
#   "error_code": null,
#   "error_message": null,
#   "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3.json",
#   "subresource_uris": {
#     "media": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3/Media.json"
#   }
# }