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(Excel) SharePoint -- Get Server Form Digest Value

Demonstrates how to get a server form digest value to be placed in the X-RequestDigest HTTP request header for POST, PUT, MERGE, and DELETE requests. A form digest value is typically valid for 1800 seconds (i.e. 30 minutes). This example persists the value to a file, and only requests a new form digest value if the existing one is near expiration.

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

'  First, let's see if we already have a persisted form digest value
'  that hasn't yet expired.
Dim fac As Chilkat.FileAccess
Set fac = Chilkat.NewFileAccess
Dim xml As Chilkat.Xml
Set xml = Chilkat.NewXml

'  My example code (below) persists the form digest XML in this format:
' 
'  	<savedFormDigestValue>
'  	<d:ExpireDateTime>2017-04-12T20:46:39Z</d:ExpireDateTime>
'  	<d:FormDigestValue>0x3059FFB920651834540F3E6792EA73F5746B302E953FF4E808E485DB1E6C2836C7CF924644995F092453B02A94DE14A7962674B7B16780AF16EAFB8C246BCDC7,12 Apr 2017 17:08:22 -0000</d:FormDigestValue>
'  	</savedFormDigestValue>
' 

Dim dtExpire As Chilkat.CkDateTime
Set dtExpire = Chilkat.NewCkDateTime
Dim dtNow As Chilkat.CkDateTime
Set dtNow = Chilkat.NewCkDateTime


formDigestXmlFile = "qa_data/sharepoint/savedFormDigestValue.xml"
If (fac.FileExists(formDigestXmlFile) = True) Then

    success = xml.LoadXmlFile(formDigestXmlFile)

    '  Get the expire date/time
    success = dtExpire.SetFromTimestamp(xml.GetChildContent("d:ExpireDateTime"))

    '  Get the current date/time
    success = dtNow.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()

    '  Get both times as Unix time values

    tNow = dtNow.GetAsUnixTime(False)

    tExpire = dtExpire.GetAsUnixTime(False)

    '  If tNow >= tExpire, then fall through.
    '  Otherwise, just use the cached digest value.
    If (tNow < tExpire) Then
        Debug.Print "Cached digest value is not yet expired."
        Debug.Print "X-RequestDigest: "; xml.GetChildContent("d:FormDigestValue")
        Exit Sub
    End If

End If

'  If we got to this point, the cached digest value either does not exist, or expired.

Dim http As Chilkat.Http
Set http = Chilkat.NewHttp

'  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

'  When creating, updating, and deleting SharePoint entities, we'll need
'  to first get the server's form digest value to send in the X-RequestDigest header.
'  This can be retrieved by making a POST request with an empty body to
'  http://<site url>/_api/contextinfo and extracting the value of the
'  d:FormDigestValue node in the XML that the contextinfo endpoint returns.

'  Note: The last argument ("utf-8") is meaningless here because the body is empty.

Set resp = http.PostXml("https://SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN/_api/contextinfo","","utf-8")
If (http.LastMethodSuccess <> True) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

If (resp.StatusCode <> 200) Then
    '  A response status code not equal to 200 indicates failure.
    Debug.Print "Response status code = "; resp.StatusCode
    Debug.Print "Response body:"
    Debug.Print resp.BodyStr

    Exit Sub
End If

success = xml.LoadXml(resp.BodyStr)

'  The response XML looks like this:

'  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
'  <d:GetContextWebInformation 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="SP.ContextWebInformation">
'      <d:FormDigestTimeoutSeconds m:type="Edm.Int32">1800</d:FormDigestTimeoutSeconds>
'      <d:FormDigestValue>0x3059FFB920651834540F3E6792EA73F5746B302E953FF4E808E485DB1E6C2836C7CF924644995F092453B02A94DE14A7962674B7B16780AF16EAFB8C246BCDC7,12 Apr 2017 17:08:22 -0000</d:FormDigestValue>
'      <d:LibraryVersion>15.0.4569.1000</d:LibraryVersion>
'      <d:SiteFullUrl>https://SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN</d:SiteFullUrl>
'      <d:SupportedSchemaVersions m:type="Collection(Edm.String)">
'          <d:element>14.0.0.0</d:element>
'          <d:element>15.0.0.0</d:element>
'      </d:SupportedSchemaVersions>
'      <d:WebFullUrl>https://SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN</d:WebFullUrl>
'  </d:GetContextWebInformation>
' 

'  Cache the digest value, and also an expiration time.  If this code is run again
'  before the digest expires, we'll just get it from the file.
Dim xml2 As Chilkat.Xml
Set xml2 = Chilkat.NewXml

xml2.Tag = "savedFormDigestValue"
xml2.NewChild2 "d:FormDigestValue",xml.GetChildContent("d:FormDigestValue")


timeoutInSec = xml.GetChildIntValue("d:FormDigestTimeoutSeconds")
Debug.Print "Timeout in seconds = "; timeoutInSec

'  Convert this to an expire timestamp.
'  Let's make it expire 30 seconds prior to the actual timeout, just to be safe.
If (timeoutInSec > 30) Then
    timeoutInSec = timeoutInSec - 30
End If

success = dtExpire.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
success = dtExpire.AddSeconds(timeoutInSec)
xml2.NewChild2 "d:ExpireDateTime",dtExpire.GetAsTimestamp(False)

'  Persist the digest and expire time to a file.
success = xml2.SaveXml(formDigestXmlFile)

Debug.Print "Here is the new form digest value:"
Debug.Print "X-RequestDigest: "; xml.GetChildContent("d:FormDigestValue")

 

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