(Chilkat2-Python) SharePoint -- Recycle File (Move File to Recycle Bin)

Moves the file to the Recycle Bin and returns the identifier of the new Recycle Bin item.

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import sys
import chilkat2

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

http = chilkat2.Http()

# If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the
# Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
http.Login = "SHAREPOINT_USERNAME"
http.Password = "SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD"
http.LoginDomain = "SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN"
http.NtlmAuth = True

# The more common case is to use SharePoint Online authentication (via the SPOIDCRL cookie).
# If so, do not set Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth, and instead
# establish the cookie as shown at SharePoint Online Authentication

req = chilkat2.HttpRequest()
req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.Path = "/_api/web/GetFileByServerRelativeUrl('/ChilkatDocLibrary/sample.docx')/recycle"

# We must add a form digest value in the X-RequestDigest header field.
# See this example for details on
# how to get (and cache) a form digest value
req.AddHeader("X-RequestDigest","SHAREPOINT_FORM_DIGEST")

# Send the request to move the file to the recycle bin.
bUseTls = True
# resp is a CkHttpResponse
resp = http.SynchronousRequest("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,bUseTls,req)
if (http.LastMethodSuccess != True):
    print(http.LastErrorText)
    sys.exit()

xml = chilkat2.Xml()
xml.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr)

# A successful response will return the 200 status code.
if (resp.StatusCode != 200):
    print("Response status code = " + str(resp.StatusCode))
    print(xml.GetXml())
    print("Failed")

    sys.exit()

# Show the XML response.
print(xml.GetXml())

# The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
# of the single-node XML that is returned:
guid = xml.Content
print("GUID of recycle item = " + guid)

print("Success.")

# A successful XML response looks like this:

# <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
# <d:Recycle xmlns:d="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices"
# xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/ado/2007/08/dataservices/metadata"
# xmlns:georss="http://www.georss.org/georss"
# xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"
# m:type="Edm.Guid">
# 63b9924d-e9c1-4d7b-b1c2-e921ad85aa1c
# </d:Recycle>