Send a REST Request with a Binary Body

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

The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory. Absolute paths may also be used. Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    const rest = try chilkat.Rest.init();
    defer rest.deinit();
    const b_tls = true;
    const b_auto_reconnect = true;
    rest.connect("example.com", 443, b_tls, b_auto_reconnect) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // The file paths are relative to the application's current working directory.  Absolute paths
    // may also be used.  Supply the paths appropriate to your own environment.

    // FullRequestBd sends a request whose binary body is read from a BinData and stores the text
    // response body in a StringBuilder.
    const bd_request = try chilkat.BinData.init();
    defer bd_request.deinit();
    bd_request.loadFile("qa_data/image.png") catch {
        std.debug.print("Failed to load the request body file.\n", .{});
        return;
    };

    rest.addHeader("Content-Type", "image/png") catch {};

    const sb_response = try chilkat.StringBuilder.init();
    defer sb_response.deinit();
    rest.fullRequestBd("PUT", "/api/images/1", bd_request, sb_response) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    const response_text = sb_response.getAsString(alloc) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try sb_response.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{response_text});
}