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load ./chilkat.dll

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

set http [new_CkHttp]

# Use this online tool to generate code from sample JSON: Generate Code to Create JSON

# The following JSON is sent in the request body.

# [
#   {
#     "address_line1": "Winchester Blvd",
#     "city_locality": "San Jose",
#     "state_province": "CA",
#     "postal_code": "78756",
#     "country_code": "US"
#   }
# ]

set jarr [new_CkJsonArray]

CkJsonArray_AddObjectAt $jarr -1
# jsonObj_1 is a CkJsonObject
set jsonObj_1 [CkJsonArray_ObjectAt $jarr [expr [CkJsonArray_get_Size $jarr] - 1]]
CkJsonObject_UpdateString $jsonObj_1 "address_line1" "Winchester Blvd"
CkJsonObject_UpdateString $jsonObj_1 "city_locality" "San Jose"
CkJsonObject_UpdateString $jsonObj_1 "state_province" "CA"
CkJsonObject_UpdateString $jsonObj_1 "postal_code" "78756"
CkJsonObject_UpdateString $jsonObj_1 "country_code" "US"
delete_CkJsonObject $jsonObj_1

CkHttp_SetRequestHeader $http "API-Key" "{{API_KEY}}"
CkHttp_SetRequestHeader $http "Content-Type" "application/json"

set sbRequestBody [new_CkStringBuilder]

CkJsonArray_EmitSb $jarr $sbRequestBody

# resp is a CkHttpResponse
set resp [CkHttp_PTextSb $http "POST" "https://api.shipengine.com/v1/addresses/validate" $sbRequestBody "utf-8" "application/json" 0 0]
if {[CkHttp_get_LastMethodSuccess $http] == 0} then {
    puts [CkHttp_lastErrorText $http]
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkJsonArray $jarr
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbRequestBody
    exit
}

set sbResponseBody [new_CkStringBuilder]

CkHttpResponse_GetBodySb $resp $sbResponseBody

set jarrResp [new_CkJsonArray]

CkJsonArray_LoadSb $jarrResp $sbResponseBody
CkJsonArray_put_EmitCompact $jarrResp 0

puts "Response Body:"
puts [CkJsonArray_emit $jarrResp]

set respStatusCode [CkHttpResponse_get_StatusCode $resp]
puts "Response Status Code = $respStatusCode"
if {$respStatusCode >= 400} then {
    puts "Response Header:"
    puts [CkHttpResponse_header $resp]
    puts "Failed."
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp

    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkJsonArray $jarr
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbRequestBody
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponseBody
    delete_CkJsonArray $jarrResp
    exit
}

delete_CkHttpResponse $resp

# Sample JSON response:
# (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)

# [
#   {
#     "status": "error",
#     "original_address": {
#       "name": null,
#       "phone": null,
#       "company_name": null,
#       "address_line1": "Winchester Blvd",
#       "address_line2": null,
#       "address_line3": null,
#       "city_locality": "San Jose",
#       "state_province": "CA",
#       "postal_code": "78756",
#       "country_code": "US",
#       "address_residential_indicator": "unknown"
#     },
#     "matched_address": null,
#     "messages": [
#       {
#         "code": "a1004",
#         "message": "Address not found",
#         "type": "warning",
#         "detail_code": null
#       },
#       {
#         "code": "a1002",
#         "message": "Invalid City, State, or Zip",
#         "type": "error",
#         "detail_code": null
#       },
#       {
#         "code": "a1004",
#         "message": "Insufficient or Incorrect Address Data",
#         "type": "warning",
#         "detail_code": null
#       }
#     ]
#   }
# ]

# Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
# Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON: Generate JSON Parsing Code

# json is a CkJsonObject

set i 0
set count_i [CkJsonArray_get_Size $jarrResp]
while {$i < $count_i} {
    set json [CkJsonArray_ObjectAt $jarrResp $i]
    set status [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "status"]
    set Name [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.name"]
    set Phone [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.phone"]
    set Company_name [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.company_name"]
    set Address_line1 [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.address_line1"]
    set Address_line2 [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.address_line2"]
    set Address_line3 [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.address_line3"]
    set City_locality [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.city_locality"]
    set State_province [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.state_province"]
    set Postal_code [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.postal_code"]
    set Country_code [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.country_code"]
    set Address_residential_indicator [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "original_address.address_residential_indicator"]
    set matched_address [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "matched_address"]
    set j 0
    set count_j [CkJsonObject_SizeOfArray $json "messages"]
    while {$j < $count_j} {
        CkJsonObject_put_J $json $j
        set code [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "messages[j].code"]
        set message [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "messages[j].message"]
        set v_type [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "messages[j].type"]
        set detail_code [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "messages[j].detail_code"]
        set j [expr $j + 1]
    }
    delete_CkJsonObject $json

    set i [expr $i + 1]
}

delete_CkHttp $http
delete_CkJsonArray $jarr
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbRequestBody
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponseBody
delete_CkJsonArray $jarrResp

Curl Command

curl -X POST
	-H "API-Key: {{API_KEY}}"
	-H "Content-Type: application/json"
	-d '[
	{
		"address_line1": "Winchester Blvd",
		"city_locality": "San Jose",
		"state_province": "CA",
		"postal_code": "78756",
		"country_code": "US"
	}
]'
https://api.shipengine.com/v1/addresses/validate

Postman Collection Item JSON

{
  "name": "Validate an address (invalid)",
  "event": [
    {
      "listen": "test",
      "script": {
        "exec": [
          ""
        ],
        "type": "text/javascript"
      }
    }
  ],
  "request": {
    "method": "POST",
    "header": [
      {
        "key": "Content-Type",
        "name": "Content-Type",
        "type": "text",
        "value": "application/json"
      }
    ],
    "body": {
      "mode": "raw",
      "raw": "[\n\t{\n\t\t\"address_line1\": \"Winchester Blvd\",\n\t\t\"city_locality\": \"San Jose\",\n\t\t\"state_province\": \"CA\",\n\t\t\"postal_code\": \"78756\",\n\t\t\"country_code\": \"US\"\n\t}\n]"
    },
    "url": {
      "raw": "https://api.shipengine.com/v1/addresses/validate",
      "protocol": "https",
      "host": [
        "api",
        "shipengine",
        "com"
      ],
      "path": [
        "v1",
        "addresses",
        "validate"
      ]
    },
    "description": "This request shows how ShipEngine responds when an address is invalid. The `status` field is `error`, and the `messages` array lists the problems with the address."
  },
  "response": [
    {
      "name": "Validate an address (corrected) Copy",
      "originalRequest": {
        "method": "POST",
        "header": [
          {
            "key": "Content-Type",
            "name": "Content-Type",
            "type": "text",
            "value": "application/json"
          }
        ],
        "body": {
          "mode": "raw",
          "raw": "[\n\t{\n\t\t\"address_line1\": \"Winchester Blvd\",\n\t\t\"city_locality\": \"San Jose\",\n\t\t\"state_province\": \"CA\",\n\t\t\"postal_code\": \"78756\",\n\t\t\"country_code\": \"US\"\n\t}\n]",
          "options": {
            "raw": {
              "language": "json"
            }
          }
        },
        "url": {
          "raw": "https://api.shipengine.com/v1/addresses/validate",
          "protocol": "https",
          "host": [
            "api",
            "shipengine",
            "com"
          ],
          "path": [
            "v1",
            "addresses",
            "validate"
          ]
        }
      },
      "status": "OK",
      "code": 200,
      "_postman_previewlanguage": "json",
      "header": [
        {
          "key": "Date",
          "value": "Wed, 18 Sep 2019 14:26:11 GMT"
        },
        {
          "key": "Content-Type",
          "value": "application/json; charset=utf-8"
        },
        {
          "key": "Content-Length",
          "value": "938"
        },
        {
          "key": "Connection",
          "value": "keep-alive"
        },
        {
          "key": "Access-Control-Allow-Origin",
          "value": "https://www.shipengine.com"
        },
        {
          "key": "Vary",
          "value": "Origin"
        },
        {
          "key": "x-shipengine-requestid",
          "value": "d582f7b7-7c4d-4f5a-aace-003457e14992"
        }
      ],
      "cookie": [
      ],
      "body": "[\n    {\n        \"status\": \"error\",\n        \"original_address\": {\n            \"name\": null,\n            \"phone\": null,\n            \"company_name\": null,\n            \"address_line1\": \"Winchester Blvd\",\n            \"address_line2\": null,\n            \"address_line3\": null,\n            \"city_locality\": \"San Jose\",\n            \"state_province\": \"CA\",\n            \"postal_code\": \"78756\",\n            \"country_code\": \"US\",\n            \"address_residential_indicator\": \"unknown\"\n        },\n        \"matched_address\": null,\n        \"messages\": [\n            {\n                \"code\": \"a1004\",\n                \"message\": \"Address not found\",\n                \"type\": \"warning\",\n                \"detail_code\": null\n            },\n            {\n                \"code\": \"a1002\",\n                \"message\": \"Invalid City, State, or Zip\",\n                \"type\": \"error\",\n                \"detail_code\": null\n            },\n            {\n                \"code\": \"a1004\",\n                \"message\": \"Insufficient or Incorrect Address Data\",\n                \"type\": \"warning\",\n                \"detail_code\": null\n            }\n        ]\n    }\n]"
    }
  ]
}