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Move a GMail Message to Trash

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Moves a specific GMail email message to trash.

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llSuccess = .F.

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

loHttp = createobject("CkHttp")
loHttp.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"

// The id of the GMail message to move to Trash.
lcId = "16678c485e7f0a0c"
lcUserId = "me"

loHttp.SetUrlVar("userId","me")
loHttp.SetUrlVar("id",lcId)

// Move to trash by POSTing w/ an empty request body.
lcUrl = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}/trash"
loResp = createobject("CkHttpResponse")
llSuccess = loHttp.HttpStr("POST",lcUrl,"","","",loResp)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    release loHttp
    release loResp
    return
endif

? "status = " + str(loResp.StatusCode)

// A 200 response status indicate success.
if (loResp.StatusCode <> 200) then
    ? loResp.BodyStr
    ? "Failed."
    release loHttp
    release loResp
    return
endif

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

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

? "response body:"
? loResp.BodyStr

? "Message moved to trash!"


release loHttp
release loResp