Send a REST Request using StringBuilder Bodies

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

Dim fso, outFile
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
'Create a Unicode (utf-16) output text file.
Set outFile = fso.CreateTextFile("output.txt", True, True)

success = 0

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")
bTls = 1
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("example.com",443,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

'  FullRequestSb sends a request whose text body is read from a StringBuilder and stores the text
'  response body in a second StringBuilder.  This avoids extra string conversions for large bodies.
set sbRequest = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = sbRequest.Append("{ ""query"": ""chilkat"" }")

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

set sbResponse = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/api/search",sbRequest,sbResponse)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

responseText = sbResponse.GetAsString()
If (sbResponse.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(sbResponse.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

outFile.WriteLine(responseText)

outFile.Close