VB.NET

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. VB.NET

Dim success As Boolean = False

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

Dim http As New Chilkat.Http

' If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
' Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
http.Login = "SHAREPOINT_USERNAME"
http.Password = "SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD"
http.LoginDomain = "SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN"
http.NtlmAuth = True

' 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

Dim req As New Chilkat.HttpRequest
req.HttpVerb = "POST"
req.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.
Dim bUseTls As Boolean = True
Dim resp As New Chilkat.HttpResponse
success = http.HttpSReq("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,bUseTls,req,resp)
If (success = False) Then
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText)
    Exit Sub
End If


Dim xml As New Chilkat.Xml
xml.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr)

' A successful response will return the 200 status code.
If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    Debug.WriteLine("Response status code = " & resp.StatusCode)
    Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml())
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed")
    Exit Sub
End If


' Show the XML response.
Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml())

' The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
' of the single-node XML that is returned:
Dim guid As String = xml.Content
Debug.WriteLine("GUID of recycle item = " & guid)

Debug.WriteLine("Success.")

' 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>