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Delete a Google Cloud Storage Bucket

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Demonstrates how to delete a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

# This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
# scope "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"

# In this example, Get Google Cloud Storage OAuth2 Access Token, 
# the service account access token was saved to a text file.  This example fetches the access token from the file..
$sbToken = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbToken->LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleCloudStorageAccessToken.txt","utf-8");

# Send a DELETE equivalent to this curl command

# curl -X DELETE -H "Authorization: Bearer [OAUTH2_TOKEN]" \
#     "https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/[BUCKET_NAME]"
# 
$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();
$http->put_AuthToken($sbToken->getAsString());

$http->SetUrlVar("bucket_name","chilkat-ocean");
$url = "https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/{$bucket_name}";

$responseBody = $http->quickDeleteStr($url);
if ($http->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$responseCode = $http->get_LastStatus();
if ($responseCode == 401) {
    print $responseBody . "\r\n";
    print "If invalid credentials, then it is likely the access token expired." . "\r\n";
    print "Your app should automatically fetch a new access token and re-try." . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# A 204 response code indicates success..
# If not success, then examine the response code and response body..
if ($responseCode != 204) {
    print "Response code: " . $responseCode . "\r\n";
    print "Response body" . "\r\n";
    print $responseBody . "\r\n";
}
else {
    print "Success." . "\r\n";
}