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Send a REST Request with No Body

Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestNoBody, which sends a complete request with no request body (such as a GET or DELETE) and returns the response body as text.

Background. This is the simplest full-request convenience method, ideal for retrieval and deletion calls that carry no request payload.

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#include <C_CkRestW.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    BOOL success;
    HCkRestW rest;
    BOOL bTls;
    BOOL bAutoReconnect;
    const wchar_t *responseText;

    success = FALSE;

    rest = CkRestW_Create();
    bTls = TRUE;
    bAutoReconnect = TRUE;
    success = CkRestW_Connect(rest,L"example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
    if (success == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    //  Send a complete request with no request body, such as a GET or DELETE.  The response body is read
    //  as text and returned.
    responseText = CkRestW_fullRequestNoBody(rest,L"GET",L"/api/items/123");
    if (CkRestW_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) == FALSE) {
        wprintf(L"%s\n",CkRestW_lastErrorText(rest));
        CkRestW_Dispose(rest);
        return;
    }

    wprintf(L"%s\n",responseText);


    CkRestW_Dispose(rest);

    }