Call Cocoa-function removeItemAtPath through AppleScript

Question

I want to use the Cocoa-function removeItemAtPath to delete a folder with a path specified in AppleScript part but don't know how to accomplish that through AppleScriptObjC.

Can you help me by giving an example?

Answer 1

Why not just use AppleScript to delete the folder?

set theFile to "path:to:folder:"
tell application "System Events"
    delete disk item theFile
end tell

Edit:

Based on the comments, you need to do this at the administrator level, and you're able to prompt the user for their credentials. You can put all of that into a shell script.

If you only need the password, using the current user's user name, this superuser question shows the shell command is:

echo <password> | sudo -S <command>

Which makes your code:

set pass to text returned of (display dialog "Enter your password:" default answer "password" with hidden answer)
do shell script "echo " & quoted form of pass & " | sudo -S rm 'path/to/file'"

If you need to run it under a separate admin user name, you can add in a dialog to get the user name and use the -u flag in your shell script:

set username to text returned of (display dialog "Enter your username:" default answer "username")
set pass to text returned of (display dialog "Enter your password:" default answer "password" with hidden answer)
set shellscript to "echo " & quoted form of pass & " | sudo -S -u " & quoted form of username & " rm 'path/to/file'"