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Twilio: Send SMS using Basic Authentication

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Demonstrates how to use Twilio to send an SMS message using Basic authentication.

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Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// Demonstrates how to use Basic Authentication in a REST API call for Twilio.
// Sends an SMS text message..

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

Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest

// Use Basic Authentication.
// Your Twilio Account SID is the username.
// Your Twilio Auth Token is the password.
success = rest.SetAuthBasic("TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID","TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN")

// Make the initial connection (without sending a request yet) to Twilio.
Dim bTls As Boolean
bTls = True
Dim port As Int32
port = 443
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("api.twilio.com",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Provide the information for the SMS text message:
success = rest.AddQueryParam("To","+16518675309")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("From","+15005550006")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("Body","Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!")
success = rest.AddQueryParam("MediaUrl","http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1075/1404618563_3ed9a44a3a.jpg")

// Send the SMS text message.
// Your Twilio Account SID is part of the URI path:
Dim responseJson As String
responseJson = rest.FullRequestFormUrlEncoded("POST","/2010-04-01/Accounts/TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID/Messages.json")
If (rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// When successful, the response status code will equal 201.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 201) Then
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    System.DebugLog("response status code = " + Str(rest.ResponseStatusCode))
    System.DebugLog("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText)
    System.DebugLog("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader)
    System.DebugLog("response body (if any): " + responseJson)
    System.DebugLog("---")
    System.DebugLog("LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.LastRequestStartLine)
    System.DebugLog("LastRequestHeader: " + rest.LastRequestHeader)
    Return
End If

// The response is JSON.  We'll show how to get a few bits of information from it.
// A full sample JSON response is shown below..

Dim json As New Chilkat.JsonObject
json.EmitCompact = False
success = json.Load(responseJson)

// First show the entire JSON.
System.DebugLog(json.Emit())

// Now get some individual pieces of information:
System.DebugLog("sid: " + json.StringOf("sid"))
System.DebugLog("body: " + json.StringOf("body"))
System.DebugLog("media: " + json.StringOf("subresource_uris.media"))

System.DebugLog("Success.")

// Sample JSON response:

// {
//   "sid": "MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3",
//   "date_created": null,
//   "date_updated": null,
//   "date_sent": null,
//   "account_sid": "112e1111e0151133d11112101111d1111",
//   "to": "+16518675309",
//   "from": "+15005550006",
//   "messaging_service_sid": null,
//   "body": "Sent from your Twilio trial account - Hey Jenny! Good luck on the bar exam!",
//   "status": "queued",
//   "num_segments": "1",
//   "num_media": "0",
//   "direction": "outbound-api",
//   "api_version": "2010-04-01",
//   "price": null,
//   "price_unit": "USD",
//   "error_code": null,
//   "error_message": null,
//   "uri": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3.json",
//   "subresource_uris": {
//     "media": "/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC2e9b6bc0f51133df24926f07341d3824/Messages/MM97ecfd43e9f24e99b0c2c6ee016949e3/Media.json"
//   }
// }