Send a REST Request with a Streamed Body

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestStream, which sends a complete request whose body is read from a Stream, then returns the response body as text.

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.

'  The request body is read from a Stream.  Here the stream's source is a local file, which is
'  appropriate for large uploads because the data need not be held entirely in memory.
Dim bodyStream As New ChilkatStream
bodyStream.SourceFile = "qa_data/upload.json"

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json")

'  The 3rd argument is the Stream that supplies the request body.
Dim responseText As String
responseText = rest.FullRequestStream("POST","/api/upload",bodyStream)
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print responseText