Tcl 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

load ./chilkat.dll

set rest [new_CkRest]

#   Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
set oauth2 [new_CkOAuth2]

CkOAuth2_put_AccessToken $oauth2 "OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN"
CkRest_SetAuthOAuth2 $rest $oauth2

set success [CkRest_Connect $rest "www.googleapis.com" 443 1 1]
if {[expr $success != 1]} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkOAuth2 $oauth2
    exit
}

CkRest_AddQueryParam $rest "supportsTeamDrives" "true"

#  The following code creates the JSON request body.
#  The JSON created by this code is shown below.
set jsonReq [new_CkJsonObject]

CkJsonObject_UpdateString $jsonReq "name" "penguins2.jpg"
CkJsonObject_UpdateString $jsonReq "description" "resized and edited by Matt"

set sbReq [new_CkStringBuilder]

CkJsonObject_EmitSb $jsonReq $sbReq

CkRest_AddHeader $rest "Content-Type" "application/json"

set sbJson [new_CkStringBuilder]

set success [CkRest_FullRequestSb $rest "POST" "/drive/v3/files/1R_70heIyzIAu1_u0prXbYcaIiJRVkgBl/copy" $sbReq $sbJson]
if {[expr $success != 1]} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkOAuth2 $oauth2
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonReq
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbReq
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbJson
    exit
}

if {[expr [CkRest_ResponseStatusCode $rest] != 200]} then {
    puts "Received error response code: [CkRest_ResponseStatusCode $rest]"
    puts "Response body:"
    puts [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbJson]
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkOAuth2 $oauth2
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonReq
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbReq
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbJson
    exit
}

set json [new_CkJsonObject]

CkJsonObject_LoadSb $json $sbJson

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

set kind [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "kind"]
set id [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "id"]
set name [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "name"]
set mimeType [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "mimeType"]
set teamDriveId [CkJsonObject_stringOf $json "teamDriveId"]

puts "Example Completed."

delete_CkRest $rest
delete_CkOAuth2 $oauth2
delete_CkJsonObject $jsonReq
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbReq
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbJson
delete_CkJsonObject $json

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"
}