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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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#include <CkHttp.h>
#include <CkHttpRequest.h>
#include <CkHttpResponse.h>
#include <CkXml.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    bool success = false;

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

    CkHttp http;

    //  If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
    //  Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
    http.put_Login("SHAREPOINT_USERNAME");
    http.put_Password("SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD");
    http.put_LoginDomain("SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN");
    http.put_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

    CkHttpRequest req;
    req.put_HttpVerb("POST");
    req.put_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.
    bool bUseTls = true;
    CkHttpResponse resp;
    success = http.HttpSReq("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,bUseTls,req,resp);
    if (success == false) {
        std::cout << http.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    CkXml xml;
    xml.LoadXml(resp.bodyStr());

    //  A successful response will return the 200 status code.
    if (resp.get_StatusCode() != 200) {
        std::cout << "Response status code = " << resp.get_StatusCode() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << xml.getXml() << "\r\n";
        std::cout << "Failed" << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    //  Show the XML response.
    std::cout << xml.getXml() << "\r\n";

    //  The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
    //  of the single-node XML that is returned:
    const char *guid = xml.content();
    std::cout << "GUID of recycle item = " << guid << "\r\n";

    std::cout << "Success." << "\r\n";

    //  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>
    }