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DocuSign Send a Draft Envelope

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Demonstrates how to send a DocuSign draft envelope.

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Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set http [new_CkHttp]

# Load a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
set jsonToken [new_CkJsonObject]

set success [CkJsonObject_LoadFile $jsonToken "qa_data/tokens/docusign.json"]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkJsonObject_lastErrorText $jsonToken]
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    exit
}

# Adds the "Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eXAi.....UE8Kl_V8KroQ" header.
CkHttp_put_AuthToken $http [CkJsonObject_stringOf $jsonToken "access_token"]

# Send the following request.
# Make sure to use your own account ID (obtained from Get Docusign User Account Information)

# PUT https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2.1/accounts/<account ID>/envelopes/<envelope ID> HTTP/1.1
# Accept: application/json
# Cache-Control: no-cache
# Authorization: Bearer eyJ0eX...
# Content-Length: ...
# Content-Type: application/json
# 
# {
#   "status": "sent"
# }

set json [new_CkJsonObject]

CkJsonObject_UpdateString $json "status" "sent"

set sbJson [new_CkStringBuilder]

CkJsonObject_put_EmitCompact $json 0
CkJsonObject_EmitSb $json $sbJson

CkHttp_SetRequestHeader $http "Cache-Control" "no-cache"
CkHttp_SetRequestHeader $http "Accept" "application/json"

# Use your own account ID here.
CkHttp_SetUrlVar $http "accountId" "7f3f65ed-5e87-418d-94c1-92499ddc8252"
# Use the envelope ID returned by DocuSign when creating the draft envelope).
CkHttp_SetUrlVar $http "envelopeId" "cee4191c-f94e-4089-9d7c-8033685cbc1a"

set url "https://demo.docusign.net/restapi/v2.1/accounts/{$accountId}/envelopes/{$envelopeId}"

set resp [new_CkHttpResponse]

set success [CkHttp_HttpSb $http "PUT" $url $sbJson "utf-8" "application/json" $resp]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkHttp_lastErrorText $http]
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkJsonObject $json
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbJson
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    exit
}

set jResp [new_CkJsonObject]

CkJsonObject_Load $jResp [CkHttpResponse_bodyStr $resp]
CkJsonObject_put_EmitCompact $jResp 0

puts "Response Body:"
puts [CkJsonObject_emit $jResp]

# If you get a 401 response status code, it's likely you need to refresh the DocuSign OAuth2 token).
set respStatusCode [CkHttpResponse_get_StatusCode $resp]
puts "Response Status Code = $respStatusCode"
if {$respStatusCode >= 400} then {
    puts "Response Header:"
    puts [CkHttpResponse_header $resp]
    puts "Failed."
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkJsonObject $json
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbJson
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    delete_CkJsonObject $jResp
    exit
}

# Sample JSON response:
# (Sample code for parsing the JSON response is shown below)

# If the envelope you're trying to send is not yet completed, you'll get an error such as this:
# {
#   "errorCode": "ENVELOPE_IS_INCOMPLETE",
#   "message": "The Envelope is not Complete. A Complete Envelope Requires Documents, Recipients, Tabs, and a Subject Line."
# }

# Sample code for parsing the JSON response...
# Use the following online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
# Generate Parsing Code from JSON

delete_CkHttp $http
delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
delete_CkJsonObject $json
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbJson
delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
delete_CkJsonObject $jResp