Download a Binary REST Response into BinData

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd, which sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a BinData.

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

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

$success = $false

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest
$bTls = $true
$bAutoReconnect = $true
$success = $rest.Connect("example.com",443,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

#  The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
#  may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

#  FullRequestNoBodyBd sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a
#  BinData.  This is appropriate when the response is binary, such as an image or file download.
$bdResponse = New-Object Chilkat.BinData
$success = $rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd("GET","/api/images/1",$bdResponse)
if ($success -eq $false) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$bSaved = $bdResponse.WriteFile("qa_output/image.png")
if ($bSaved -ne $true) {
    $("Failed to save the response body.")
    exit
}

$("Downloaded " + $bdResponse.NumBytes + " bytes.")