Xbase++

Download Binary File to In-Memory Bytes

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This example demonstrates how to download the binary content of a file from Google Drive directly into local memory. Xbase++

LOCAL nSuccess
LOCAL oGAuth
LOCAL oRest
LOCAL nBAutoReconnect
LOCAL oGdCache
LOCAL cFileId
LOCAL oSbPath
LOCAL nStatusCode
LOCAL cErrResponseBody
LOCAL oFac

nSuccess := 0

nSuccess := 1

//  It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
//  See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

//  This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
//  Google Drive scope.

oGAuth := CreateObject("Chilkat.AuthGoogle")
oGAuth:AccessToken := "GOOGLE-DRIVE-ACCESS-TOKEN"

oRest := CreateObject("Chilkat.Rest")

//  Connect using TLS.
//  A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Google Drive REST API calls.
//  The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
//  then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
nBAutoReconnect := 1
nSuccess := oRest:Connect("www.googleapis.com", 443, 1, nBAutoReconnect)

//  Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
oRest:SetAuthGoogle(oGAuth)

//  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
//  To download a file, we must know the file ID.
//  In a previous example (see Build Local Metadata Cache
//  we built a local cache to make it easy to lookup file IDs given a file path.
//  Let's say we want to download "testFolder/abc/123/penguins.jpg".
//  First we lookup the fileId in the cache.  With the fileId, we can download the file.
oGdCache := CreateObject("Chilkat.Cache")
oGdCache:Level := 0
oGdCache:AddRoot("C:/ckCache/googleDrive")

cFileId := oGdCache:FetchText("testFolder/abc/123/penguins.jpg")
IF (oGdCache:LastMethodSuccess != 1)
    ? "Filepath not found in cache."
    oGAuth:destroy()
    oRest:destroy()
    oGdCache:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  We need to send a GET request like this:
//  GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/fileId?alt=media
//  The fileId is part of the path.
oSbPath := CreateObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
oSbPath:Append("/drive/v3/files/")
oSbPath:Append(cFileId)
oRest:AddQueryParam("alt", "media")

//  To download to memory, we'll send the request in one call, then receive
//  the response header, and then the response body.
//  If the response header indicates failure or an unexpected response, then the
//  body is not the data we desire.

//  First send the HTTP request.
nSuccess := oRest:SendReqNoBody("GET", oSbPath:GetAsString())
IF (nSuccess != 1)
    ? oRest:LastErrorText
    oGAuth:destroy()
    oRest:destroy()
    oGdCache:destroy()
    oSbPath:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Get the response header.
nStatusCode := oRest:ReadResponseHeader()
IF (nStatusCode != 200)
    ? "response status code = " + Str(oRest:ResponseStatusCode)
    ? "response status text = " + oRest:ResponseStatusText
    ? "response header: " + oRest:ResponseHeader

    //  Read the response body (which should be error text or HTML)
    cErrResponseBody := oRest:ReadRespBodyString()
    IF (oRest:LastMethodSuccess == 1)
        ? "response body: " + cErrResponseBody
    ENDIF

    oGAuth:destroy()
    oRest:destroy()
    oGdCache:destroy()
    oSbPath:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Read the response body, which should contain the file data.

oJpgBytes := oRest:ReadRespBodyBinary()
IF (oRest:LastMethodSuccess != 1)
    ? oRest:LastErrorText
    oGAuth:destroy()
    oRest:destroy()
    oGdCache:destroy()
    oSbPath:destroy()
    RETURN
ENDIF

//  Save jpgBytes to a file so we can examine the file to verify that it worked.
oFac := CreateObject("Chilkat.FileAccess")
oFac:WriteEntireFile("qa_output/penguins_out.jpg", oJpgBytes)

? "File downloaded."

oGAuth:destroy()
oRest:destroy()
oGdCache:destroy()
oSbPath:destroy()
oFac:destroy()