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SharePoint -- Copy a File to a New Location

Copies a file to a new SharePoint location.

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Ruby
require 'chilkat'

success = false

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

http = Chilkat::CkHttp.new()

# If SharePoint Windows classic authentication is used, then set the 
# Login, Password, LoginDomain, and NtlmAuth properties.
http.put_Login("SHAREPOINT_USERNAME")
http.put_Password("SHAREPOINT_PASSWORD")
http.put_LoginDomain("SHAREPOINT_NTLM_DOMAIN")
http.put_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

# Indicate that we want a JSON reply
http.put_Accept("application/json;odata=verbose")

req = Chilkat::CkHttpRequest.new()
req.put_HttpVerb("POST")
# Copies the file /ChilkatDocLibrary/sample.docx to /Documents/ChilkatTest/sampleA.docx
req.put_Path("/_api/web/GetFileByServerRelativeUrl('/ChilkatDocLibrary/sample.docx')/copyto(strnewurl='/Documents/ChilkatTest/sampleA.docx',boverwrite=false)")

# We need to 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 copy the document.
bUseTls = true
resp = Chilkat::CkHttpResponse.new()
success = http.HttpSReq("SHAREPOINT_HTTPS_DOMAIN",443,bUseTls,req,resp)
if (success == false)
    print http.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

# A successful update will return a 200 status code with an empty body.
# A non-successful update will return a JSON response body..
if (resp.get_StatusCode() != 200)
    print "Response status code = " + resp.get_StatusCode().to_s() + "\n";
    json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
    json.Load(resp.bodyStr())
    json.put_EmitCompact(false)
    print json.emit() + "\n";
    print "Failed" + "\n";
    exit
end

print "Success." + "\n";