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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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Local $bSuccess = False

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

$oHttp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Http")

; Use your previously obtained access token here:
$oHttp.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 
$oHtFolderMap = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Hashtable")
$oSbMap = ObjCreate("Chilkat.StringBuilder")
$oSbMap.LoadFile("qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml","utf-8")
$oHtFolderMap.AddFromXmlSb($oSbMap)

; Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
Local $srcFolderId = $oHtFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/abc/subFolderA")
If ($oHtFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Folder ID not found" & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

Local $sDstFolderId = $oHtFolderMap.LookupStr("/Inbox/xyz")
If ($oHtFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Destination folder ID not found" & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

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

$oJsonRequestBody = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJsonRequestBody.UpdateString("DestinationId",$sDstFolderId)

$oHttp.SetUrlVar("src_folder_id",$srcFolderId)

; Copy the source folder to the new location
$oResp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
$bSuccess = $oHttp.HttpJson("POST","https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy",$oJsonRequestBody,"application/json",$oResp)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oHttp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

; A 201 response indicates success.
If ($oResp.StatusCode = 201) Then
    ConsoleWrite("Folder copied." & @CRLF)
Else
    ConsoleWrite("Response status code = " & $oResp.StatusCode & @CRLF)
    ConsoleWrite("Error: Folder not copied." & @CRLF)
EndIf

; Show the response in both cases..
$oJsonResponse = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJsonResponse.EmitCompact = False
$oJsonResponse.Load($oResp.BodyStr)
ConsoleWrite($oJsonResponse.Emit() & @CRLF)

; 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
; 	}