Ruby 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"

Ruby Example

require 'chilkat'

rest = Chilkat::CkRest.new()

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

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 != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

respStatusCode = rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()
if (respStatusCode >= 400)
    print "Response Status Code = " + respStatusCode.to_s() + "\n";
    print "Response Header:" + "\n";
    print rest.responseHeader() + "\n";
    print "Response Body:" + "\n";
    print sbResponseBody.getAsString() + "\n";
    exit
end