Download a Binary REST Response into BinData

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBodyBd, which sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a BinData.

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

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CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

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

    DECLARE @bTls int
    SELECT @bTls = 1
    DECLARE @bAutoReconnect int
    SELECT @bAutoReconnect = 1
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @rest, 'Connect', @success OUT, 'example.com', 443, @bTls, @bAutoReconnect
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @rest, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest
        RETURN
      END

    --  The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
    --  may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

    --  FullRequestNoBodyBd sends a request with no body and stores the binary response body in a
    --  BinData.  This is appropriate when the response is binary, such as an image or file download.
    DECLARE @bdResponse int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.BinData', @bdResponse OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @rest, 'FullRequestNoBodyBd', @success OUT, 'GET', '/api/images/1', @bdResponse
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @rest, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @bdResponse
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @bSaved int
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @bdResponse, 'WriteFile', @bSaved OUT, 'qa_output/image.png'
    IF @bSaved <> 1
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Failed to save the response body.'
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @bdResponse
        RETURN
      END

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @bdResponse, 'NumBytes', @iTmp0 OUT

    PRINT 'Downloaded ' + @iTmp0 + ' bytes.'

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @bdResponse


END
GO