PowerShell 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

[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("supportsTeamDrives","true")

#  The following code creates the JSON request body.
#  The JSON created by this code is shown below.
$jsonReq = New-Object Chilkat.JsonObject
$jsonReq.UpdateString("name","penguins2.jpg")
$jsonReq.UpdateString("description","resized and edited by Matt")

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

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

$sbJson = New-Object Chilkat.StringBuilder
$success = $rest.FullRequestSb("POST","/drive/v3/files/1R_70heIyzIAu1_u0prXbYcaIiJRVkgBl/copy",$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.

$kind = $json.StringOf("kind")
$id = $json.StringOf("id")
$name = $json.StringOf("name")
$mimeType = $json.StringOf("mimeType")
$teamDriveId = $json.StringOf("teamDriveId")

$("Example Completed.")

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"
}