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Remove a Query Parameter from a REST Request

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Demonstrates Rest.RemoveQueryParam, which removes all query parameters whose name matches the supplied value. Name matching is case-sensitive.

Background. Removing individual parameters is useful when reusing a Rest object for requests that share most, but not all, of their query parameters.

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require 'chilkat'

success = false

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

#  Connect to the REST server.  The 3rd argument enables TLS (use true for HTTPS on port 443),
#  and the 4th enables automatic reconnection if the connection is dropped between requests.
bTls = true
bAutoReconnect = true
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
if (success == false)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

rest.AddQueryParam("q","chilkat")
rest.AddQueryParam("limit","10")

#  Remove a query parameter by name.  Name matching is case-sensitive.
rest.RemoveQueryParam("limit")

responseText = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET","/api/search")
if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print responseText + "\n";