Send a REST Request with a Binary Body

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestBd, which sends a complete request whose binary body is read from a BinData and stores the text response body in a StringBuilder.

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.

Dim success As Long
success = 0

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest
Dim bTls As Long
bTls = 1
Dim bAutoReconnect As Long
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

'  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.

'  FullRequestBd sends a request whose binary body is read from a BinData and stores the text
'  response body in a StringBuilder.
Dim bdRequest As New ChilkatBinData
Dim bLoaded As Long
bLoaded = bdRequest.LoadFile("qa_data/image.png")
If (bLoaded <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print "Failed to load the request body file."
    Exit Sub
End If

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","image/png")

Dim sbResponse As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestBd("PUT","/api/images/1",bdRequest,sbResponse)
If (success = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim responseText As String
responseText = sbResponse.GetAsString()
If (sbResponse.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print sbResponse.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print responseText