VB.NET

VoiceBase -- Compound Expression Search

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Demonstrates how to do a VoiceBase compound expression search. See VoiceBase Search for more details about Search. VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = False

' This example assumes the Chilkat HTTP API to have been previously unlocked.
' See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

' Insert your Bearer token here:
Dim accessToken As String = "VOICEBASE_TOKEN"

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http

Dim req As New Chilkat.HttpRequest
req.HttpVerb = "GET"
req.Path = "/v2-beta/media"

' Add the access (bearer) token to the request, which is a header
' having the following format:
' Authorization: Bearer <userAccessToken>
Dim sbAuth As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
sbAuth.Append("Bearer ")
sbAuth.Append(accessToken)
req.AddHeader("Authorization",sbAuth.GetAsString())

' Search for media containing the terms any of the terms "test", "number", or "three"
req.AddParam("query","""test"" OR ""number"" OR ""three""")

Dim resp As New Chilkat.HttpResponse
success = http.HttpSReq("apis.voicebase.com",443,True,req,resp)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


' Examine the response status code and body.
Debug.WriteLine("Response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)

' The response should be JSON, even if an error.
Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.Load(resp.BodyStr)
json.EmitCompact = False

' A successful response will have a status code = 200
If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed.")
Else
    Debug.WriteLine("mediaId: " & json.StringOf("mediaId"))
    Debug.WriteLine("href: " & json.StringOf("_links.self.href"))
    Debug.WriteLine("status: " & json.StringOf("status"))
    Debug.WriteLine("Success.")
End If


' See the sample JSON response below..

' Iterate over the JSON like this:
Dim dt As New Chilkat.CkDateTime
Dim dtObj As New Chilkat.DtObj

Dim mediaCount As Integer = json.SizeOfArray("media")
Dim i As Integer = 0
While i < mediaCount
    json.I = i

    Debug.WriteLine("-- " & i & " --")
    Debug.WriteLine("  mediaId: " & json.StringOf("media[i].mediaId"))
    Debug.WriteLine("  status: " & json.StringOf("media[i].status"))
    Debug.WriteLine("  contentType: " & json.StringOf("media[i].metadata.contentType"))
    Debug.WriteLine("  milliseconds: " & json.StringOf("media[i].metadata.length.milliseconds"))
    Debug.WriteLine("  descriptive: " & json.StringOf("media[i].metadata.length.descriptive"))
    Dim dateCreated As String = json.StringOf("media[i].dateCreated")
    dt.SetFromTimestamp(dateCreated)

    Dim localTime As Boolean = True
    dt.ToDtObj(localTime,dtObj)

    Debug.WriteLine("  " & dtObj.Month & "/" & dtObj.Day & "  " & dtObj.Hour & ":" & dtObj.Minute)

    i = i + 1
End While
Debug.WriteLine("Finished.")

' A sample JSON response:

' { 
'   "_links": { 
'     "self": { 
'       "href": "/v2-beta/media"
'     }
'   },
'   "media": [
'     { 
'       "mediaId": "26063536-FFFF-4020-93ba-0878112d834b",
'       "status": "finished",
'       "metadata": { 
'         "contentType": "audio/x-wav",
'         "length": { 
'           "milliseconds": 85141,
'           "descriptive": "85.0 sec"
'         }
'       },
'       "dateCreated": "2017-01-19T16:49:32.000Z"
'     },
'     { 
'       "mediaId": "8163fbbc-FFFF-4794-aa95-045420bb321d",
'       "status": "finished",
'       "metadata": { 
'         "contentType": "audio/x-wav",
'         "length": { 
'           "milliseconds": 65342,
'           "descriptive": "65.0 sec"
'         }
'       },
'       "dateCreated": "2017-01-19T20:08:49.000Z"
'     },
' ...
' ...
'     { 
'       "mediaId": "b01e27be-FFFF-4b62-8802-6dc66a75c4d3",
'       "status": "finished",
'       "metadata": { 
'         "contentType": "audio/x-wav",
'         "length": { 
'           "milliseconds": 11581,
'           "descriptive": "11.0 sec"
'         }
'       },
'       "dateCreated": "2017-02-06T20:55:43.000Z"
'     }
'   ]
' }