Send a Staged REST Request with No Body

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Demonstrates Rest.SendReqNoBody, which sends a request without a body as the first step of the staged request model. After it succeeds, the response header and body are read separately.

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_Rest
integer li_BTls
integer li_BAutoReconnect
integer li_StatusCode
string ls_ResponseBody

li_Success = 0

loo_Rest = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Rest.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Rest")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_Rest
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
li_BTls = 1
li_BAutoReconnect = 1
li_Success = loo_Rest.Connect("example.com",443,li_BTls,li_BAutoReconnect)
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Rest
    return
end if

//  Send a request without a request body.  This is a low-level send: after it succeeds, read the
//  response header and body separately.
li_Success = loo_Rest.SendReqNoBody("GET","/api/items/123")
if li_Success = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Rest
    return
end if

//  After sending, read the response status line and header fields.  The return value is the HTTP
//  status code, or -1 if no response was received.
li_StatusCode = loo_Rest.ReadResponseHeader()
if li_StatusCode < 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Rest
    return
end if

Write-Debug "Response status code: " + string(li_StatusCode)

//  Read the response body as text.
ls_ResponseBody = loo_Rest.ReadRespBodyString()
if loo_Rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_Rest
    return
end if

Write-Debug ls_ResponseBody


destroy loo_Rest