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Visual Basic 6.0

Send a REST Request with a Text Body

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Demonstrates Rest.FullRequestString, a convenience method that sends a complete request whose text body (such as JSON, XML, or plain text) is supplied directly, then reads and returns the response body as text.

Background. The full-request convenience methods perform the entire request/response exchange in a single call. FullRequestString is well suited to typical JSON or XML API calls where the body fits comfortably in a string.

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Visual Basic 6.0
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

'  Send a complete request whose text body is supplied directly, such as JSON.  The response body is
'  read as text and returned.  The 1st argument is the HTTP verb, the 2nd is the URI path, and the
'  3rd is the request body.
success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json")

Dim jsonBody As String
jsonBody = "{ ""name"": ""example"", ""active"": true }"
Dim responseText As String
responseText = rest.FullRequestString("POST","/api/items",jsonBody)
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print responseText