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Classic ASP

Move a GMail Message to Trash

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Moves a specific GMail email message to trash.

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Classic ASP
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
success = 0

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

set http = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.Http")
http.AuthToken = "GMAIL-ACCESS-TOKEN"

' The id of the GMail message to move to Trash.
id = "16678c485e7f0a0c"
userId = "me"

success = http.SetUrlVar("userId","me")
success = http.SetUrlVar("id",id)

' Move to trash by POSTing w/ an empty request body.
url = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/{$userId}/messages/{$id}/trash"
set resp = Server.CreateObject("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
success = http.HttpStr("POST",url,"","","",resp)
If (success = 0) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( http.LastErrorText) & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "status = " & resp.StatusCode) & "</pre>"

' A 200 response status indicate success.
If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( resp.BodyStr) & "</pre>"
    Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Failed.") & "</pre>"
    Response.End
End If

' A successful repsonse contains JSON that looks like this:

' {
'  "id": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
'  "threadId": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
'  "labelIds": [
'   "TRASH",
'   "CATEGORY_SOCIAL"
'  ]
' }

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "response body:") & "</pre>"
Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( resp.BodyStr) & "</pre>"

Response.Write "<pre>" & Server.HTMLEncode( "Message moved to trash!") & "</pre>"

%>
</body>
</html>