Rust

Box.com Download Binary File to Memory

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Retrieves the actual data of the file into a memory (not to a local file). Rust

let mut success = false;

// This requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

let http = chilkat::Http::new();
http.set_keep_response_body(true);

// Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
// See Get Box OAuth2 Access Token.
http.set_auth_token("BOX_ACCESS_TOKEN");

http.set_follow_redirects(true);

// The file is specified by the file ID.
// In this case, we're downloading a file with FILE_ID = 283371752129.
// The general form of the URL for downloading is: https://api.box.com/2.0/files/FILE_ID/content
let bd = chilkat::BinData::new();
success = http.download_bd("https://api.box.com/2.0/files/283371752129/content", &bd).is_ok();
let status_code = http.last_status();
if !success {
    if status_code == 0 {
        // Unable to either send the request or get the response.
        println!("{}", http.last_error_text());
    } else {
        // We got a response, but the status code was not in the 200s
        println!("Response status code: {}", status_code);
        // Examine the response body.
        println!("Response body:");
        println!("{}", http.last_response_body());
    }

    println!("Download failed.");

} else {
    println!("Downloaded tigers.jpeg into an object holding the binary data.");

    println!("Number of bytes: {}", bd.num_bytes());
}