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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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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

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

$http = chilkat::CkHttp->new();

# If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
# Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
$http->put_Login("SHAREPOINT_USERNAME");
$http->put_Password("SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD");
$http->put_LoginDomain("SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN");
$http->put_NtlmAuth(1);

# 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

$req = chilkat::CkHttpRequest->new();
$req->put_HttpVerb("POST");
$req->put_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
$req->AddHeader("X-RequestDigest","SHAREPOINT_FORM_DIGEST");

# Send the request to move the file to the recycle bin.
$bUseTls = 1;
$resp = chilkat::CkHttpResponse->new();
$success = $http->HttpSReq("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,$bUseTls,$req,$resp);
if ($success == 0) {
    print $http->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$xml = chilkat::CkXml->new();
$xml->LoadXml($resp->bodyStr());

# A successful response will return the 200 status code.
if ($resp->get_StatusCode() != 200) {
    print "Response status code = " . $resp->get_StatusCode() . "\r\n";
    print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";
    print "Failed" . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

# Show the XML response.
print $xml->getXml() . "\r\n";

# The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
# of the single-node XML that is returned:
$guid = $xml->content();
print "GUID of recycle item = " . $guid . "\r\n";

print "Success." . "\r\n";

# 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>