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Outlook -- Copy Mail Folder and Contents to another Mail Folder

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Copy a mailfolder and its contents to another mailfolder.

This example applies to: Exchange Online | Office 365 | Hotmail.com | Live.com | MSN.com | Outlook.com | Passport.com

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import { Hashtable, Http, HttpResponse, JsonObject, StringBuilder } from '@chilkat/react-native'

async function chilkatExample() {
  // This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
  // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

  const http = new Http();

  // Use your previously obtained access token here:
  http.authToken = 'MICROSOFT_GRAPH_ACCESS_TOKEN';

  // This example will copy /Inbox/abc/subFolderA and its contents to /Inbox/xyz
  // We'll need the folder ids for both source and destination folders..

  // Get the folder IDs from the folder map created by this example 
  const htFolderMap = new Hashtable();
  const sbMap = new StringBuilder();
  sbMap.loadFile('qa_data/outlook/folderMap.xml', 'utf-8');
  htFolderMap.addFromXmlSb(sbMap);

  // Get the IDs for the source and destination folders.
  let srcFolderId: string;
  try {
    srcFolderId = htFolderMap.lookupStr('/Inbox/abc/subFolderA');
  } catch {
    console.log('Folder ID not found');
    return;
  }

  let dstFolderId: string;
  try {
    dstFolderId = htFolderMap.lookupStr('/Inbox/xyz');
  } catch {
    console.log('Destination folder ID not found');
    return;
  }

  // Create a JSON request body with this content:
  // 
  // 		{
  // 		  "DestinationId": "destinationId-value"
  // 		}

  const jsonRequestBody = new JsonObject();
  jsonRequestBody.updateString('DestinationId', dstFolderId);

  http.setUrlVar('src_folder_id', srcFolderId);

  // Copy the source folder to the new location
  const resp = new HttpResponse();
  try {
    await http.httpJsonAsync('POST', 'https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/me/mailFolders/{$src_folder_id}/copy', jsonRequestBody, 'application/json', resp);
  } catch {
    console.log(http.lastErrorText);
    return;
  }

  // A 201 response indicates success.
  if (resp.statusCode === 201) {
    console.log('Folder copied.');
  } else {
    console.log(`Response status code = ${resp.statusCode}`);
    console.log('Error: Folder not copied.');
  }

  // Show the response in both cases..
  const jsonResponse = new JsonObject();
  jsonResponse.emitCompact = false;
  jsonResponse.load(resp.bodyStr);
  console.log(jsonResponse.emit());

  // A sample successful JSON response looks like this:

  // 	{
  // 	  "@odata.context": "https://graph.microsoft.com/v1.0/$metadata#mailFolder",
  // 	  "@odata.type": "#microsoft.graph.mailFolder",
  // 	  "id": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAM6JqMAAAAA=",
  // 	  "displayName": "subFolderA",
  // 	  "parentFolderId": "AQMkADAwATM0MDAAMS1iNTcwLWI2NTEtMDACLTAwCgAuAAADsVyfxjDU406Ic4X7ill8xAEA5_vF7TKKdE6bGCRqXyl2PQAAAL8huwEAAAA=",
  // 	  "childFolderCount": 1,
  // 	  "unreadItemCount": 0,
  // 	  "totalItemCount": 0
  // 	}
}