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Azure Storage: Delete Container

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Azure Storage Blob Service REST API: Sample code to mark a container for deletion. The container and any blobs contained within it are later deleted during garbage collection.

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bool success = false;

// Azure Blob Service Example: Delete Container
// See also: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/dd179408.aspx

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

Chilkat.Rest rest = new Chilkat.Rest();

// Connect to the Azure Storage Blob Service
bool bTls = true;
int port = 443;
bool bAutoReconnect = true;
// In this example, the storage account name is "chilkat".
success = rest.Connect("chilkat.blob.core.windows.net",port,bTls,bAutoReconnect);
if (success != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// Provide Azure Cloud credentials for the REST call.
Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage azAuth = new Chilkat.AuthAzureStorage();
azAuth.AccessKey = "AZURE_ACCESS_KEY";
// The account name used here should match the 1st part of the domain passed in the call to Connect (above).
azAuth.Account = "chilkat";
azAuth.Scheme = "SharedKey";
azAuth.Service = "Blob";
// This causes the "x-ms-version: 2021-08-06" header to be automatically added.
azAuth.XMsVersion = "2021-08-06";
success = rest.SetAuthAzureStorage(azAuth);

// Note: The application does not need to explicitly set the following
// headers: x-ms-date, Authorization.  These headers
// are automatically set by Chilkat.

// To call Delete Container on a container that has an active lease, specify the lease ID in this header. 
// If this header is not specified when there is an active lease, Delete Container will return 409 (Conflict). 
// If you specify the wrong lease ID, or a lease ID on a container that does not have an active lease, 
// Delete Container will return 412 (Precondition failed).

// IMPORTANT: Delete this line, or insert a valid lease ID, otherwise the request
// will fail with a 400 status code..
success = rest.AddHeader("x-ms-lease-id","SOME_LEASE_ID");

// The expected success response is a 202 response status code with no response body.
// In this example, the container to be deleted is named "mycontainer".
string responseStr = rest.FullRequestNoBody("DELETE","/mycontainer?restype=container");
if (rest.LastMethodSuccess != true) {
    Debug.WriteLine(rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// When successful, the Azure Storage service will respond with a 202 response code,
// with no response body.

// If the container with the same name already exists, then the operation will fail.
if (rest.ResponseStatusCode != 202) {
    // Examine the request/response to see what happened.
    Debug.WriteLine("response status code = " + Convert.ToString(rest.ResponseStatusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText);
    Debug.WriteLine("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader);
    Debug.WriteLine("response body (if any): " + responseStr);
    Debug.WriteLine("---");
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestStartLine: " + rest.LastRequestStartLine);
    Debug.WriteLine("LastRequestHeader: " + rest.LastRequestHeader);
    return;
}

Debug.WriteLine("Success: Container marked for deletion.");