Use an Existing Socket Connection for REST

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Demonstrates Rest.UseConnection, which supplies an already-connected Socket as the transport for REST requests instead of calling Connect. This is useful when the connection must be established with specific socket options or shared across objects.

// Demonstrates supplying an already-connected socket for the REST transport.  This is useful when
// the connection must be established with specific socket options, or reused across objects.

let socket = chilkat::Socket::new();
let b_ssl = true;
if socket.connect("example.com", 443, b_ssl, 5000).is_err() {
    println!("{}", socket.last_error_text());
    return;
}

let rest = chilkat::Rest::new();

// Use the connected socket as the transport.  The 2nd argument enables automatic reconnection.
let b_auto_reconnect = true;
if rest.use_connection(&socket, b_auto_reconnect).is_err() {
    println!("{}", rest.last_error_text());
    return;
}

let Ok(response_text) = rest.full_request_no_body("GET", "/api/status") else {
    println!("{}", rest.last_error_text());
    return;
};

println!("{}", response_text);