Send a Staged REST Request with a Text Body

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Demonstrates Rest.SendReqStringBody, which sends a request whose text body (such as JSON) is supplied directly, then reads the response in separate steps.

-- 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
    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

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @rest, 'AddHeader', @success OUT, 'Content-Type', 'application/json'

    --  Send a request whose text body (such as JSON) is supplied directly.
    DECLARE @jsonBody nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @jsonBody = '{ "name": "example" }'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @rest, 'SendReqStringBody', @success OUT, 'POST', '/api/items', @jsonBody
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @rest, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest
        RETURN
      END

    --  After sending, read the response status line and header fields.  The return value is the HTTP
    --  status code, or -1 if no response was received.
    DECLARE @statusCode int
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @rest, 'ReadResponseHeader', @statusCode OUT
    IF @statusCode < 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @rest, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest
        RETURN
      END

    PRINT 'Response status code: ' + @statusCode

    --  Read the response body as text.
    DECLARE @responseBody nvarchar(4000)
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @rest, 'ReadRespBodyString', @responseBody OUT
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @rest, 'LastMethodSuccess', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @rest, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest
        RETURN
      END

    PRINT @responseBody

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @rest


END
GO