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Read the REST Response Body in Chunks

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Demonstrates Rest.ReadRespChunkBd, which reads the response body one chunk at a time, appending each chunk to a BinData. A return value of 0 signals the body is complete, while -1 indicates a read failure.

Background. Chunked reading lets an application process a large response incrementally rather than buffering the entire body at once. It is used after ReadResponseHeader within the staged request model.

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<?php

$success = 0;

$rest = new COM("Chilkat.Rest");
$bTls = 1;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect('example.com',443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$success = $rest->SendReqNoBody('GET','/api/largefile');
if ($success == 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

$statusCode = $rest->ReadResponseHeader();
if ($statusCode < 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  Check for the expected success status code.  If the response is not 200, the body is likely
//  error text formatted as JSON, XML, or HTML rather than the expected content.  In that case read
//  the body as text, report it, and return.
if ($statusCode != 200) {
    $sbError = new COM("Chilkat.StringBuilder");
    $success = $rest->ReadRespSb($sbError);
    if ($success == 0) {
        print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
        exit;
    }

    print 'Request failed with status code ' . $statusCode . "\n";
    print $sbError->getAsString() . "\n";
    exit;
}

//  The status code is 200.  Read the response body in chunks, appending each chunk to the BinData.
//  Each call waits until at least the requested number of bytes is available, unless the response
//  ends first.  A return value of 0 means the final bytes were returned and the body is complete;
//  -1 indicates a read failure.
$bdBody = new COM("Chilkat.BinData");
$chunkResult = $rest->ReadRespChunkBd(8192,$bdBody);
while ($chunkResult > 0) {
    $chunkResult = $rest->ReadRespChunkBd(8192,$bdBody);
}

if ($chunkResult < 0) {
    print $rest->LastErrorText . "\n";
    exit;
}

print 'Received ' . $bdBody->NumBytes . ' bytes.' . "\n";

?>