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Outlook -- Copy Mail Folder and Contents to another Mail Folder

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Copy a mailfolder and its contents to another mailfolder.

This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com

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function chilkatExample() {

    var success = false;

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

    var http = new chilkat.Http();

    // Use your previously obtained access token here:
    http.AuthToken = "MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN";

    // This example will copy /Inbox/abc/subFolderA and its contents to /Inbox/xyz
    // We'll need the folder ids for both source and destination folders..

    // Get the folder IDs from the folder map created by this example 
    var htFolderMap = new chilkat.Hashtable();
    var sbMap = new chilkat.StringBuilder();
    sbMap.LoadFile("qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml","utf-8");
    htFolderMap.AddFromXmlSb(sbMap);

    // Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
    var srcFolderId = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/abc/subFolderA");
    if (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess !== true) {
        console.log("Folder ID not found");
        return;
    }

    var dstFolderId = htFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/xyz");
    if (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess !== true) {
        console.log("Destination folder ID not found");
        return;
    }

    // Create a JSON request body with this content:
    // 
    // 		{
    // 		  "DestinationId": "destinationId-value"
    // 		}

    var jsonRequestBody = new chilkat.JsonObject();
    jsonRequestBody.UpdateString("DestinationId",dstFolderId);

    http.SetUrlVar("src_folder_id",srcFolderId);

    // Copy the source folder to the new location
    var resp = new chilkat.HttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpJson("POST","https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy",jsonRequestBody,"application/json",resp);
    if (success == false) {
        console.log(http.LastErrorText);
        return;
    }

    // A 201 response indicates success.
    if (resp.StatusCode == 201) {
        console.log("Folder copied.");
    }
    else {
        console.log("Response status code = " + resp.StatusCode);
        console.log("Error: Folder not copied.");
    }

    // Show the response in both cases..
    var jsonResponse = new chilkat.JsonObject();
    jsonResponse.EmitCompact = false;
    jsonResponse.Load(resp.BodyStr);
    console.log(jsonResponse.Emit());

    // A sample successful JSON response looks like this:

    // 	{
    // 	  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#mailFolder",
    // 	  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailFolder",
    // 	  "id": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAM6JqMAAAAA=",
    // 	  "displayName": "subFolderA",
    // 	  "parentFolderId": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAL8huwEAAAA=",
    // 	  "childFolderCount": 1,
    // 	  "unreadItemCount": 0,
    // 	  "totalItemCount": 0
    // 	}

}

chilkatExample();