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

let http = chilkat::Http::new();
http.set_auth_token("GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN");

// The id of the GMail message to move to Trash.
let id = "16678c485e7f0a0c".to_string();
let user_id = "me".to_string();

let _ = http.set_url_var("userId", "me");
let _ = http.set_url_var("id", &id);

// Move to trash by POSTing w/ an empty request body.
let url = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}/trash".to_string();
let resp = chilkat::HttpResponse::new();
if http.http_str("POST", &url, "", "", "", &resp).is_err() {
    println!("{}", http.last_error_text());
    return;
}

println!("status = {}", resp.status_code());

// A 200 response status indicate success.
if resp.status_code() != 200 {
    println!("{}", resp.body_str());
    println!("Failed.");
    return;
}

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

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

println!("response body:");
println!("{}", resp.body_str());

println!("Message moved to trash!");