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HTTPS GET Request with Authorization Bearer Header

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Demonstrates how to send an HTTPS GET request with an "Authorization: Bearer " header and get the text response (which could be JSON).

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

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

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Setting the AuthToken property causes the "Authorization: Bearer <token>" header to be added to each request.
    -- Set AuthToken equal to your token without the keyword "Bearer".
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'AuthToken', 'Your access token'

    -- Send the GET request and get the response text (assuming you know beforehand that the response will be text, such as JSON, XML, HTML, etc.)
    DECLARE @responseText nvarchar(4000)
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'QuickGetStr', @responseText OUT, 'https://www.example.com/something'
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastMethodSuccess', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 = 0
      BEGIN
        -- This means something failed where you did not get an HTTP response.
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        RETURN
      END

    -- If you get here, then you received an HTTP response where you can check the response status code, and the responseText will contain
    -- the response body.

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastStatus', @iTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'Response status code = ' + @iTmp0
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastStatus', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 200
      BEGIN
        -- Probably an error from the server.  Examine the HTTP response body.

        PRINT @responseText
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        RETURN
      END

    -- If you get here, the response status code was the expected value indicating success,
    -- if you know the response is JSON, you can load it into a Chilkat JSON object and continue ...
    DECLARE @json int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @json OUT

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @json, 'EmitCompact', 1
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'Load', @success OUT, @responseText
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @json, 'Emit', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: 
    -- Generate Parsing Code from JSON

    -- ...
    -- ...

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @json


END
GO