(VBScript) POST JSON to REST API with non-us-ascii Chars Escaped

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Note: This example requires Chilkat v11.1.0 or greater.

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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

success = 0

set rest = CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

' Connect using TLS.
bAutoReconnect = 1
success = rest.Connect("chilkatsoft.com",443,1,bAutoReconnect)

' Load JSON containing the following Korean text.

'  {
'    "BillAddr": {
'       "Id": "239615",
'       "Line1": "류리하",
'       "Line2": "류리하류리하",
'       "City": "류리하류리하",
'       "Country": "US",
'       "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
'       "PostalCode": "류리하"
'     }
' }

set json = CreateObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
json.EmitCompact = 0
success = json.LoadFile("qa_data/json/korean.json")
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(json.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json; charset=UTF-8")

set sb = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = json.EmitSb(sb)
success = sb.Encode("unicodeescape","utf-8")

outFile.WriteLine(sb.GetAsString())

' The StringBuilder contains this:

' {
'   "BillAddr": {
'     "Id": "239615",
'     "Line1": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
'     "Line2": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
'     "City": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558\ub958\ub9ac\ud558",
'     "Country": "US",
'     "CountrySubDivisionCode": "AK",
'     "PostalCode": "\ub958\ub9ac\ud558"
'   }
' }

set sbResp = CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/echo_request_body.asp",sb,sbResp)
If (success = 0) Then
    outFile.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText)
    WScript.Quit
End If

' Show the response. 
outFile.WriteLine("Json Response: " & sbResp.GetAsString())

outFile.Close