Ruby

Move a GMail Message to Trash

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Moves a specific GMail email message to trash. Ruby

require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()
http.put_AuthToken("GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN")

# The id of the GMail message to move to Trash.
id = "16678c485e7f0a0c"
userId = "me"

http.SetUrlVar("userId","me")
http.SetUrlVar("id",id)

# Move to trash by POSTing w/ an empty request body.
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}/trash"
resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpStr("POST",url,"","","",resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

print "status = " + resp.get_StatusCode().to_s() + "\n";

# A 200 response status indicate success.
if (resp.get_StatusCode() != 200)
    print resp.bodyStr() + "\n";
    print "Failed." + "\n";
    exit
end

# A successful repsonse contains JSON that looks like this:

# {
#  "id": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
#  "threadId": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
#  "labelIds": [
#   "TRASH",
#   "CATEGORY_SOCIAL"
#  ]
# }

print "response body:" + "\n";
print resp.bodyStr() + "\n";

print "Message moved to trash!" + "\n";