PowerShell Google Drive: Create a New Comment on a File

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Creates a new comment on a file. The file is specified by file ID. This example creates a comment on the file having id = "0B5drHSd5ZHwgc3RhcnRlcl9maWxlX2Rhc2hlclYw".

Documentation: https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/comments/create

[Reflection.Assembly]::LoadFile("C:\myAssemblies\ChilkatDotNet2.dll")

$rest = New-Object Chilkat.Rest

#   Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
$oauth2 = New-Object Chilkat.OAuth2
$oauth2.AccessToken = "OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN"
$rest.SetAuthOAuth2($oauth2)

$success = $rest.Connect("www.googleapis.com",443,$true,$true)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

$rest.AddQueryParam("fields","author,content")

#  The following code creates the JSON request body.
#  The JSON created by this code is shown below.
$jsonReq = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$jsonReq.UpdateString("content","This is a test comment about this file...")

$sbReq = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$jsonReq.EmitSb($sbReq)

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

$sbJson = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/drive/v3/files/0B5drHSd5ZHwgc3RhcnRlcl9maWxlX2Rhc2hlclYw/comments",$sbReq,$sbJson)
if ($success -ne $true) {
    $($rest.LastErrorText)
    exit
}

if ($rest.ResponseStatusCode -ne 200) {
    $("Received error response code: " + $rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    $("Response body:")
    $($sbJson.GetAsString())
    exit
}

$json = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$json.LoadSb($sbJson)

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

$authorKind = $json.StringOf("author.kind")
$authorDisplayName = $json.StringOf("author.displayName")
$authorPhotoLink = $json.StringOf("author.photoLink")
$authorMe = $json.BoolOf("author.me")
$content = $json.StringOf("content")

$("Example Completed.")

Sample JSON Request Body

{
  "content": "This is a test comment about this file..."
}

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "author": {
    "kind": "drive#user",
    "displayName": "Matt Fausey",
    "photoLink": "//ssl.gstatic.com/s2/profiles/images/silhouette96.png",
    "me": true
  },
  "content": "This is a test comment about this file..."
}