React Native

Download File from Dropbox into a String Variable

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Demonstrates how to download a file from Dropbox directly into a string variable. React Native

import { CkDateTime, DtObj, JsonObject, Rest } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  // A Dropbox access token should have been previously obtained.
  // Dropbox access tokens do not expire.
  // See Dropbox Access Token.

  const rest = new Rest();

  // Connect to Dropbox
  try {
    await rest.connectAsync('content.dropboxapi.com', 443, true, true);
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Add request headers.
  rest.addHeader('Authorization', 'Bearer DROPBOX_ACCESS_TOKEN');

  // The download "parameters" are contained in JSON passed in an HTTP request header.
  // This is the JSON indicating the file to be downloaded:
  // { 
  //    "path": "/jack.txt",
  // }

  const json = new JsonObject();
  json.appendString('path', '/jack.txt');
  rest.addHeader('Dropbox-API-Arg', json.emit());

  // The content of the file on Dropbox is returned.
  let fileContent: string;
  try {
    fileContent = await rest.fullRequestNoBodyAsync('POST', '/2/files/download');
  } catch {
    console.log(rest.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // When successful, Dropbox responds with a 200 response code.
  if (rest.responseStatusCode !== 200) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    console.log(`response status code = ${rest.responseStatusCode}`);
    console.log(`response status text = ${rest.responseStatusText}`);
    console.log(`response header: ${rest.responseHeader}`);
    console.log(`response body (if any): ${fileContent}`);
    console.log('---');
    console.log(`LastRequestStartLine: ${rest.lastRequestStartLine}`);
    console.log(`LastRequestHeader: ${rest.lastRequestHeader}`);
    return;
  }

  // Show the file content that was downloaded:
  console.log(fileContent);
  console.log('----');

  // Information about the downloaded file is also available as JSON in a response header.
  // The "dropbox-api-result" response header contains the information.  For example:
  const apiResult = rest.responseHdrByName('dropbox-api-result');
  console.log(apiResult);

  // In this case, the pretty-formatted dropbox-api-result JSON looks like this:
  // { 
  //   "name": "jack.txt",
  //   "path_lower": "/jack.txt",
  //   "path_display": "/jack.txt",
  //   "id": "id:yqx4-tE_NKAAAAAAAAAAAQ",
  //   "client_modified": "2016-06-02T20:42:11Z",
  //   "server_modified": "2016-06-02T20:42:11Z",
  //   "rev": "8482db15f",
  //   "size": 42
  // }

  // Load the JSON, pretty-print it, and demonstrate how to get some values...
  const jsonResult = new JsonObject();
  jsonResult.emitCompact = false;
  jsonResult.load(apiResult);
  // Show the JSON pretty-printed...
  console.log(jsonResult.emit());

  // Sample code to get data from the JSON response:
  const size = jsonResult.intOf('size');
  console.log(`size = ${size}`);

  const rev = jsonResult.stringOf('rev');
  console.log(`rev = ${rev}`);

  const clientModified = jsonResult.stringOf('client_modified');
  const ckdt = new CkDateTime();
  ckdt.setFromTimestamp(clientModified);
  const bLocalTime = true;
  const dt = new DtObj();
  ckdt.toDtObj(bLocalTime, dt);

  console.log(`${dt.day}/${dt.month}/${dt.year} ${dt.hour}:${dt.minute}`);
}