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.

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

set rest [new_CkRest]

set bTls 1
set bAutoReconnect 1
set success [CkRest_Connect $rest "example.com" 443 $bTls $bAutoReconnect]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    exit
}

#  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.
set bdResponse [new_CkBinData]

set success [CkRest_FullRequestNoBodyBd $rest "GET" "/api/images/1" $bdResponse]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkBinData $bdResponse
    exit
}

set bSaved [CkBinData_WriteFile $bdResponse "qa_output/image.png"]
if {$bSaved != 1} then {
    puts "Failed to save the response body."
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkBinData $bdResponse
    exit
}

puts "Downloaded [CkBinData_get_NumBytes $bdResponse] bytes."

delete_CkRest $rest
delete_CkBinData $bdResponse