React Native Requires Chilkat v11.0.0+

Parse Multipart Binary Http Response

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This example demonstrates how to parse an HTTP response that is multipart and contains a binary file, such as a .zip or .pdf. React Native

import { BinData, Http, HttpRequest, HttpResponse, Mime } 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.

  const http = new Http();
  const req = new HttpRequest();

  // ...
  // Insert code here to construct some kind of HTTP request.
  // this example is to show how to parse a particular kind of response.
  // ...
  // ...

  // Send the request (whatever it may be in your case) to get the HTTP response object.
  const resp = new HttpResponse();
  try {
    await http.httpSReqAsync('www.somedomain.com', 443, true, req, resp);
  } catch {
    console.log(http.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // Get the response body (which is expected to be binary)
  const respBody = new BinData();
  resp.getBodyBd(respBody);

  // For this example, the response body contains something like this:

  // ------=_Part_21302_2029949381.1547401515443
  // Content-Type: application/xop+xml; charset=UTF-8; type="text/xml"
  // Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
  // Content-ID: <rootpart@ws.jboss.org>
  // 
  // <env:Envelope xmlns:env='http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/'><env:Header></env:Header><env:Body>...</env:Body></env:Envelope>
  // ------=_Part_21302_2029949381.1547401515443
  // Content-Type: application/octet-stream
  // Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary
  // Content-Id: <fileArchivio-7d302908-4d64-43d3-bf4e-79ce806d43b3@ws.jboss.org>
  // 
  // BINARY_CONTENT_HERE...
  // 
  // ------=_Part_21302_2029949381.1547401515443--
  // 

  // Load it into a Chilkat MIME object.
  const mime = new Mime();
  try {
    mime.loadMimeBd(respBody);
  } catch {
    console.log(mime.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  const numParts = mime.numParts;
  if (numParts < 2) {
    console.log('Expected multipart MIME with at least 2 sub-parts.');
    return;
  }

  // Get the 1st sub-part, which is the XML.

  const part0 = new Mime();
  mime.partAt(0, part0);

  // Should be OK because we checked NumParts above..
  const xmlStr = part0.getBodyDecoded();
  console.log(xmlStr);
  console.log('----');

  // Save the 2nd part to a file.  (It is a .zip file in our test case..)

  const part1 = new Mime();
  mime.partAt(1, part1);

  part1.saveBody('qa_output/attachedZip.zip');

  // Alternatively, we could extract the binary data to a BinData and use elsewhere..
  const zipData = new BinData();
  part1.getBodyBd(zipData);
  zipData.writeFile('qa_output/attachedZip_again.zip');

  console.log('OK.');
}