Perl Google Drive: Make a Copy of a File

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Makes a copy of a file. The name and description of the copy is provided in the JSON body of the request.

Documentation: https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/files/copy

use chilkat();

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

#   Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
$oauth2 = chilkat::CkOAuth2->new();
$oauth2->put_AccessToken("OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN");
$rest->SetAuthOAuth2($oauth2);

$success = $rest->Connect("www.googleapis.com",443,1,1);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$rest->AddQueryParam("supportsTeamDrives","true");

#  The following code creates the JSON request body.
#  The JSON created by this code is shown below.
$jsonReq = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$jsonReq->UpdateString("name","penguins2.jpg");
$jsonReq->UpdateString("description","resized and edited by Matt");

$sbReq = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$jsonReq->EmitSb($sbReq);

$rest->AddHeader("Content-Type","application/json");

$sbJson = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestSb("POST","/drive/v3/files/1R_70heIyzIAu1_u0prXbYcaIiJRVkgBl/copy",$sbReq,$sbJson);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
    print "Received error response code: " . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\r\n";
    print "Response body:" . "\r\n";
    print $sbJson->getAsString() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->LoadSb($sbJson);

#  The following code parses the JSON response.
#  A sample JSON response is shown below the sample code.

$kind = $json->stringOf("kind");
$id = $json->stringOf("id");
$name = $json->stringOf("name");
$mimeType = $json->stringOf("mimeType");
$teamDriveId = $json->stringOf("teamDriveId");

print "Example Completed." . "\r\n";

Sample JSON Request Body

{
    "name": "penguins2.jpg",
    "description": "resized and edited by Matt"
}

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "kind": "drive#file",
  "id": "1xx378JF8abx17LXlRt65031J9TQkolQX",
  "name": "penguins2.jpg",
  "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
  "teamDriveId": "0AEd3EhGff2SaUk9PVA"
}