Xojo Plugin

Download Text File to a String Variable

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This example demonstrates how to download the content of a text file from Google Drive into a string variable. Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

success = True

// 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.

Dim gAuth As New Chilkat.AuthGoogle
gAuth.AccessToken = "GOOGLE-DRIVE-ACCESS-TOKEN"

Dim rest As New 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.
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("www.googleapis.com",443,True,bAutoReconnect)

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
success = rest.SetAuthGoogle(gAuth)

// ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// 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/pigs.json".
// First we lookup the fileId in the cache.  With the fileId, we can download the file.
Dim gdCache As New Chilkat.Cache
gdCache.Level = 0
gdCache.AddRoot "C:/ckCache/googleDrive"

Dim fileId As String
fileId = gdCache.FetchText("testFolder/abc/123/pigs.json")
If (gdCache.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog("Filepath not found in cache.")
    Return
End If

// 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.
Dim sbPath As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = sbPath.Append("/drive/v3/files/")
success = sbPath.Append(fileId)
success = rest.AddQueryParam("alt","media")

// The FullRequestNoBody returns the file content in the response body.
Dim fileContent As String
fileContent = rest.FullRequestNoBody("GET",sbPath.GetAsString())
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
    System.DebugLog("response status code = " + Str(rest.ResponseStatusCode))
    System.DebugLog("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText)
    System.DebugLog("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog(fileContent)

System.DebugLog("File downloaded.")