Objective-C

Outlook -- Copy Mail Folder and Contents to another Mail Folder

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Copy a mailfolder and its contents to another mailfolder.

This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com

Objective-C

#import <CkoHttp.h>
#import <CkoHashtable.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>
#import <NSString.h>
#import <CkoJsonObject.h>
#import <CkoHttpResponse.h>

BOOL success = NO;

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

CkoHttp *http = [[CkoHttp alloc] init];

// Use your previously obtained access token here:
http.AuthToken = @"MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN";

// This example will copy /Inbox/abc/subFolderA and its contents to /Inbox/xyz
// We'll need the folder ids for both source and destination folders..

// Get the folder IDs from the folder map created by this example 
CkoHashtable *htFolderMap = [[CkoHashtable alloc] init];
CkoStringBuilder *sbMap = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[sbMap LoadFile: @"qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml" charset: @"utf-8"];
[htFolderMap AddFromXmlSb: sbMap];

// Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
NSString *srcFolderId = [htFolderMap LookupStr: @"/Inbox/abc/subFolderA"];
if (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Folder ID not found");
    return;
}

NSString *dstFolderId = [htFolderMap LookupStr: @"/Inbox/xyz"];
if (htFolderMap.LastMethodSuccess != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Destination folder ID not found");
    return;
}

// Create a JSON request body with this content:
// 
// 		{
// 		  "DestinationId": "destinationId-value"
// 		}

CkoJsonObject *jsonRequestBody = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
[jsonRequestBody UpdateString: @"DestinationId" value: dstFolderId];

[http SetUrlVar: @"src_folder_id" value: srcFolderId];

// Copy the source folder to the new location
CkoHttpResponse *resp = [[CkoHttpResponse alloc] init];
success = [http HttpJson: @"POST" url: @"https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy" json: jsonRequestBody contentType: @"application/json" response: resp];
if (success == NO) {
    NSLog(@"%@",http.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// A 201 response indicates success.
if ([resp.StatusCode intValue] == 201) {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Folder copied.");
}
else {
    NSLog(@"%@%d",@"Response status code = ",[resp.StatusCode intValue]);
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Error: Folder not copied.");
}

// Show the response in both cases..
CkoJsonObject *jsonResponse = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
jsonResponse.EmitCompact = NO;
[jsonResponse Load: resp.BodyStr];
NSLog(@"%@",[jsonResponse Emit]);

// A sample successful JSON response looks like this:

// 	{
// 	  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#mailFolder",
// 	  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailFolder",
// 	  "id": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAM6JqMAAAAA=",
// 	  "displayName": "subFolderA",
// 	  "parentFolderId": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAL8huwEAAAA=",
// 	  "childFolderCount": 1,
// 	  "unreadItemCount": 0,
// 	  "totalItemCount": 0
// 	}