(Visual Basic 6.0) curl with Variable Substitution in the Request Body

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Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.5.0 or greater.

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Dim success As Long
success = 0

' Variables can also be used within the HTTP request body.
' Variable names are enclosed between {{ and }}

' Here is a curl command with two variables {{name}} and {{age}} located in the data.

' curl -X POST https://api.example.com/data \
'   -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
'   -d '{"name":"{{name}}","age":{{age}}}'

Dim sbCurl As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = sbCurl.AppendLn("curl -X POST https://api.example.com/data \")
success = sbCurl.AppendLn("  -H ""Content-Type: application/json"" \")
success = sbCurl.AppendLn("  -d '{""name"":""{{name}}"",""age"":{{age}}}'")

Dim curl As New ChilkatHttpCurl

' Provide values for variables.
curl.SetVar "name","Alice"
curl.SetVar "age","30"

' To demonstrate how the variables are replaced, this example does not execute the curl command. 
' Instead, it generates the raw HTTP request that would be sent if the curl command were run.
Dim sbRawRequest As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = curl.ToRawRequest(sbCurl.GetAsString(),sbRawRequest)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print curl.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print sbRawRequest.GetAsString()

' Output:

' POST /data HTTP/1.1
' Host: api.example.com
' Content-Type: application/json
' Content-Length: 25
' 
' {"name":"Alice","age":30}

' --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
' Note: Variable substitution in the request body can be turned off by 
' setting the EnableBodyVars property equal to 0

curl.EnableBodyVars = 0

success = curl.ToRawRequest(sbCurl.GetAsString(),sbRawRequest)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print curl.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print sbRawRequest.GetAsString()

' The raw request with body variable substitution disable:

' Host: api.example.com
' Content-Type: application/json
' Content-Length: 33
' 
' {"name":"{{name}}","age":{{age}}}