(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.

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'  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 Chilkat.HttpResponse = http.SynchronousRequest("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,bUseTls,req)
If (http.LastMethodSuccess <> True) 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>