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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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Tcl

load ./chilkat.dll

set success 0

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

set http [new_CkHttp]

# If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
# Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
CkHttp_put_Login $http "SHAREPOINT_USERNAME"
CkHttp_put_Password $http "SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD"
CkHttp_put_LoginDomain $http "SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN"
CkHttp_put_NtlmAuth $http 1

# 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

set req [new_CkHttpRequest]

CkHttpRequest_put_HttpVerb $req "POST"
CkHttpRequest_put_Path $req "/_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
CkHttpRequest_AddHeader $req "X-RequestDigest" "SHAREPOINT_FORM_DIGEST"

# Send the request to move the file to the recycle bin.
set bUseTls 1
set resp [new_CkHttpResponse]

set success [CkHttp_HttpSReq $http "SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN" 443 $bUseTls $req $resp]
if {$success == 0} then {
    puts [CkHttp_lastErrorText $http]
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkHttpRequest $req
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    exit
}

set xml [new_CkXml]

CkXml_LoadXml $xml [CkHttpResponse_bodyStr $resp]

# A successful response will return the 200 status code.
if {[CkHttpResponse_get_StatusCode $resp] != 200} then {
    puts "Response status code = [CkHttpResponse_get_StatusCode $resp]"
    puts [CkXml_getXml $xml]
    puts "Failed"
    delete_CkHttp $http
    delete_CkHttpRequest $req
    delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
    delete_CkXml $xml
    exit
}

# Show the XML response.
puts [CkXml_getXml $xml]

# The GUID (identifier) of the item in the recycle bin is just the content
# of the single-node XML that is returned:
set guid [CkXml_content $xml]
puts "GUID of recycle item = $guid"

puts "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>

delete_CkHttp $http
delete_CkHttpRequest $req
delete_CkHttpResponse $resp
delete_CkXml $xml