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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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bool success = false;

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

Chilkat.Http http = 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

Chilkat.HttpRequest req = 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.
bool bUseTls = true;
Chilkat.HttpResponse resp = new Chilkat.HttpResponse();
success = http.HttpSReq("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,bUseTls,req,resp);
if (success == false) {
    Debug.WriteLine(http.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

Chilkat.Xml xml = new Chilkat.Xml();
xml.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr);

// A successful response will return the 200 status code.
if (resp.StatusCode != 200) {
    Debug.WriteLine("Response status code = " + Convert.ToString(resp.StatusCode));
    Debug.WriteLine(xml.GetXml());
    Debug.WriteLine("Failed");
    return;
}

// 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:
string guid = 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>