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.

Add-Type -Path "C:\chilkat\ChilkatDotNet47-x64\ChilkatDotNet47.dll"

$success = $false

$mcp = New-Object Chilkat.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.
$success = $mcp.Connect("https://learn.microsoft.com/api/mcp")
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($mcp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  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-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$success = $mcp.ReadResource("file:///example/resource.txt",$json)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($mcp.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$json.EmitCompact = $false
$($json.Emit())
#  JSON parsing code for this result can be generated at Chilkat's online tool:
#  https://tools.chilkat.io/jsonParse