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.

<?php

use Chilkat2\JsonObject;
use Chilkat2\Mcp;

$mcp = new Mcp();

// 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.
try {
    $mcp->Connect('https://learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp');

    // 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 = new JsonObject();
    $mcp->ReadResource('file:///example/resource.txt', $json);
} catch (\Chilkat2\Exception $e) {
    echo $e->getMessage(), "\n";
    exit;
}

$json->EmitCompact = false;
echo $json->Emit(), "\n";
// JSON parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
// https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse