Chilkat Online Tools

ListSkills VB6 Example

Alexa for Business

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

Dim rest As New ChilkatRest
Dim success As Long

Dim authAws As New ChilkatAuthAws
authAws.AccessKey = "AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
authAws.SecretKey = "AWS_SECRET_KEY"

' Don't forget to change the region to your particular region. (Also make the same change in the call to Connect below.)
authAws.Region = "us-west-2"
authAws.ServiceName = "a4b"
' SetAuthAws causes Chilkat to automatically add the following headers: Authorization, X-Amz-Date
success = rest.SetAuthAws(authAws)

' URL: https://a4b.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
' Use the same region as specified above.
success = rest.Connect("a4b.us-west-2.amazonaws.com",443,1,1)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print "ConnectFailReason: " & rest.ConnectFailReason
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

' The following code creates the JSON request body.
' The JSON created by this code is shown below.

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

Dim json As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = json.UpdateString("EnablementType","string")
success = json.UpdateInt("MaxResults",123)
success = json.UpdateString("NextToken","string")
success = json.UpdateString("SkillGroupArn","string")
success = json.UpdateString("SkillType","string")

' The JSON request body created by the above code:

' {
'   "EnablementType": "string",
'   "MaxResults": number,
'   "NextToken": "string",
'   "SkillGroupArn": "string",
'   "SkillType": "string"
' }

success = rest.AddHeader("Content-Type","application/x-amz-json-1.1")
success = rest.AddHeader("X-Amz-Target","AlexaForBusiness.ListSkills")

Dim sbRequestBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = json.EmitSb(sbRequestBody)
Dim sbResponseBody As New ChilkatStringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/",sbRequestBody,sbResponseBody)
If (success <> 1) Then
    Debug.Print rest.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim respStatusCode As Long
respStatusCode = rest.ResponseStatusCode
Debug.Print "response status code = " & respStatusCode
If (respStatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.Print "Response Header:"
    Debug.Print rest.ResponseHeader
    Debug.Print "Response Body:"
    Debug.Print sbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    Exit Sub
End If

Dim jResp As New ChilkatJsonObject
success = jResp.LoadSb(sbResponseBody)

' The following code parses the JSON response.
' A sample JSON response is shown below the sample code.

' Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
' Generate Parsing Code from JSON

Dim EnablementType As String
Dim SkillId As String
Dim SkillName As String
Dim SkillType As String
Dim SupportsLinking As Long

Dim NextToken As String
NextToken = jResp.StringOf("NextToken")
Dim i As Long
i = 0
Dim count_i As Long
count_i = jResp.SizeOfArray("SkillSummaries")
Do While i < count_i
    jResp.I = i
    EnablementType = jResp.StringOf("SkillSummaries[i].EnablementType")
    SkillId = jResp.StringOf("SkillSummaries[i].SkillId")
    SkillName = jResp.StringOf("SkillSummaries[i].SkillName")
    SkillType = jResp.StringOf("SkillSummaries[i].SkillType")
    SupportsLinking = jResp.IntOf("SkillSummaries[i].SupportsLinking")
    i = i + 1
Loop

' A sample JSON response body parsed by the above code:

' {
'   "NextToken": "string",
'   "SkillSummaries": [
'     {
'       "EnablementType": "string",
'       "SkillId": "string",
'       "SkillName": "string",
'       "SkillType": "string",
'       "SupportsLinking": boolean
'     }
'   ]
' }