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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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llSuccess = .F.

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

loHttp = createobject("CkHttp")

// If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
// Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
loHttp.Login = "SHAREPOINT_USERNAME"
loHttp.Password = "SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD"
loHttp.LoginDomain = "SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN"
loHttp.NtlmAuth = .T.

// 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

loReq = createobject("CkHttpRequest")
loReq.HttpVerb = "POST"
loReq.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
loReq.AddHeader("X-RequestDigest","SHAREPOINT_FORM_DIGEST")

// Send the request to move the file to the recycle bin.
llBUseTls = .T.
loResp = createobject("CkHttpResponse")
llSuccess = loHttp.HttpSReq("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,llBUseTls,loReq,loResp)
if (llSuccess = .F.) then
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    release loHttp
    release loReq
    release loResp
    return
endif

loXml = createobject("CkXml")
loXml.LoadXml(loResp.BodyStr)

// A successful response will return the 200 status code.
if (loResp.StatusCode <> 200) then
    ? "Response status code = " + str(loResp.StatusCode)
    ? loXml.GetXml()
    ? "Failed"
    release loHttp
    release loReq
    release loResp
    release loXml
    return
endif

// Show the XML response.
? loXml.GetXml()

// The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
// of the single-node XML that is returned:
lcGuid = loXml.Content
? "GUID of recycle item = " + lcGuid

? "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>


release loHttp
release loReq
release loResp
release loXml