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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

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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

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

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- Use your previously obtained access token here:
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @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 
    DECLARE @htFolderMap int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Hashtable', @htFolderMap OUT

    DECLARE @sbMap int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.StringBuilder', @sbMap OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @sbMap, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml', 'utf-8'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @htFolderMap, 'AddFromXmlSb', @success OUT, @sbMap

    -- Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
    DECLARE @srcFolderId nvarchar(4000)
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @htFolderMap, 'LookupStr', @srcFolderId OUT, '/Inbox/abc/subFolderA'
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @htFolderMap, 'LastMethodSuccess', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 1
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Folder ID not found'
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @htFolderMap
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbMap
        RETURN
      END
    DECLARE @dstFolderId nvarchar(4000)
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @htFolderMap, 'LookupStr', @dstFolderId OUT, '/Inbox/xyz'
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @htFolderMap, 'LastMethodSuccess', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 <> 1
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Destination folder ID not found'
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @htFolderMap
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbMap
        RETURN
      END

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

    DECLARE @jsonRequestBody int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @jsonRequestBody OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @jsonRequestBody, 'UpdateString', @success OUT, 'DestinationId', @dstFolderId

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'SetUrlVar', @success OUT, 'src_folder_id', @srcFolderId

    -- Copy the source folder to the new location
    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpJson', @success OUT, 'POST', 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy', @jsonRequestBody, 'application/json', @resp
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @htFolderMap
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbMap
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonRequestBody
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        RETURN
      END

    -- A 201 response indicates success.
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 = 201
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Folder copied.'
      END
    ELSE
      BEGIN

        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
        PRINT 'Response status code = ' + @iTmp0

        PRINT 'Error: Folder not copied.'
      END

    -- Show the response in both cases..
    DECLARE @jsonResponse int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @jsonResponse OUT

    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @jsonResponse, 'EmitCompact', 0
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @jsonResponse, 'Load', @success OUT, @sTmp0
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @jsonResponse, 'Emit', @sTmp0 OUT
    PRINT @sTmp0

    -- 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
    -- 	}

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @htFolderMap
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @sbMap
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonRequestBody
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonResponse


END
GO