Perl Google Cloud Storage: Delete Bucket

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Permanently deletes an empty bucket. The path parameter is the name of the bucket to delete. In this example, we are deleting the bucket "chilkat-test-bucket". Success is indicated by a 204 response status code with an empty response body.

Documentation: https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/json_api/v1/buckets/delete

CURL Command

curl -X DELETE https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/chilkat-test-bucket?project=MY_CLOUD_STORAGE_PROJECT \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer CLOUD_STORAGE_TOKEN"

Perl Example

use chilkat();

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

#  URL: https://www.googleapis.com/storage/v1/b/chilkat-test-bucket?project=MY_CLOUD_STORAGE_PROJECT
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("www.googleapis.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != 1) {
    print "ConnectFailReason: " . $rest->get_ConnectFailReason() . "\r\n";
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$rest->AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer CLOUD_STORAGE_TOKEN");

$sbResponseBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb("DELETE","/storage/v1/b/chilkat-test-bucket?project=MY_CLOUD_STORAGE_PROJECT",$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode();
if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print "Response Status Code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";
    print "Response Header:" . "\r\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "Response Body:" . "\r\n";
    print $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}