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Google People API - Delete a Contact

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Demonstrates how to delete a People API Contact.

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Lua
local chilkat = require("chilkat")

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

-- It is assumed we previously obtained an OAuth2 access token.
-- This example loads the JSON access token file

-- originally obtained by this example: Get Google People API OAuth2 Access Token
-- or refreshed by this example: Refresh Google People API OAuth2 Access Token

local jsonToken = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
local success = jsonToken:load_file("qa_data/tokens/googlePeople.json")
if not success then
    print("Failed to load googleContacts.json")
    return
end

local http = chilkat.Http.new()

http.auth_token = jsonToken:string_of("access_token")

-- Send the following request, where resource_name contains the actual resource name, such as "people/c172365763025317520".
-- DELETE /v1/resource_name:deleteContact

local responseText = http:quick_delete_str("https://people.googleapis.com/v1/people/c172365763025317520:deleteContact")
if not http.last_method_success then
    print(http.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- A 200 status code indicates success.  The response text for success will be an empty JSON document: "{}"
print("Response status code = " .. http.last_status)
print("Response text:")
print(responseText)