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Create Folder

See more Google Drive Examples

In the Drive API, a folder is essentially a file — one identified by the special folder MIME type application/vnd.google-apps.folder

See Google Drive Files: create for more details.

Also See Working with Folders for more details.

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Dim success As Boolean = False

'  Creating a folder is technically an upload of a 0-length file
'  having a MIME type of "application/vnd.google-apps.folder"

success = True

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

'  This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
'  Google Drive scope.

Dim gAuth As ChilkatAuthGoogle
gAuth.Initialize("gAuth")
gAuth.AccessToken = "GOOGLE-DRIVE-ACCESS-TOKEN"

Dim rest As ChilkatRest
rest.Initialize("rest")

'  Connect using TLS.
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean = True
success = rest.Connect("www.googleapis.com", 443, True, bAutoReconnect)

'  Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
rest.SetAuthGoogle(gAuth)

'  A multipart upload to Google Drive needs a multipart/related Content-Type
rest.AddHeader("Content-Type", "multipart/related")

'  Specify each part of the request.

'  The 1st part is JSON with information about the folder.
rest.PartSelector = "1"
rest.AddHeader("Content-Type", "application/json; charset=UTF-8")

Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
json.AppendString("name", "testFolder")
json.AppendString("description", "A folder to contain test files.")
json.AppendString("mimeType", "application/vnd.google-apps.folder")
rest.SetMultipartBodyString(json.Emit)

'  The 2nd part would be the file content.
'  Since this is a folder, skip the 2nd part entirely and go straight to the upload..

Dim jsonResponse As String = rest.FullRequestMultipart("POST", "/upload/drive/v3/files?uploadType=multipart")
If rest.LastMethodSuccess <> True Then
    Log(rest.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200 Then
    Log("response status code = " & rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    Log("response status text = " & rest.ResponseStatusText)
    Log("response header: " & rest.ResponseHeader)
    Log("response JSON: " & jsonResponse)
    Return
End If


'  Show the JSON response.
json.Load(jsonResponse)

'  Show the full JSON response.
json.EmitCompact = False
Log(json.Emit)

'  A successful response looks like this:
'  {
'    "kind": "drive#file",
'    "id": "0B53Q6OSTWYolY2tPU1BnYW02T2c",
'    "name": "testFolder",
'    "mimeType": "application/vnd.google-apps.folder"
'  }

'  Get the fileId:
Log("fileId: " & json.StringOf("id"))