Android™

Move a GMail Message to Trash

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Moves a specific GMail email message to trash. Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

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

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

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

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

    // Move to trash by POSTing w/ an empty request body.
    String url = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}/trash";
    CkHttpResponse resp = new CkHttpResponse();
    success = http.HttpStr("POST",url,"","","",resp);
    if (success == false) {
        Log.i(TAG, http.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, "status = " + String.valueOf(resp.get_StatusCode()));

    // A 200 response status indicate success.
    if (resp.get_StatusCode() != 200) {
        Log.i(TAG, resp.bodyStr());
        Log.i(TAG, "Failed.");
        return;
        }

    // A successful repsonse contains JSON that looks like this:

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

    Log.i(TAG, "response body:");
    Log.i(TAG, resp.bodyStr());

    Log.i(TAG, "Message moved to trash!");

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}