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Delete Slide From Google API Using Ruby

I'm trying to delete a slide from a presentation I have on google drive. Currently authentication works and I am able to retrieve the presentation and get the slide id I want to delete from there. When I send the request to delete the slide it throws this error:

Caught error badRequest: Invalid requests[0]: No request set.

Here is how I am formatting my request

requests = [{ 
            requests: { 
              delete_object: 
                { 
                  object_id: '<slide_id_goes_here>' 
                } 
              } 
           }]

Here is how I am sending the request to the API

service = authorize_service(Google::Apis::SlidesV1::SlidesService.new, scopes)
req = Google::Apis::SlidesV1::BatchUpdatePresentationRequest.new(requests: requests) 
service.batch_update_presentation(presentation_id, req, {})

What is causing this error? How should I be formatting this in ruby?

Edit:

To get the slide id that I want to delete I take this type of object

Google::Apis::SlidesV1::Presentation

and then call

google_slides_api_presentation_object.slides.first.object_id

Maybe this is part of my problem?

Solution

  • How about this modification?

    Modified script:

    delete_object = Google::Apis::SlidesV1::DeleteObjectRequest.new()
delete_object.object_id_prop = "<slide_id_goes_here>"
request = Google::Apis::SlidesV1::Request.new(delete_object: delete_object)
requests = Array.new([request])
batch = Google::Apis::SlidesV1::BatchUpdatePresentationRequest.new(requests: [])
batch.update!(requests: requests)
res = service.batch_update_presentation(presentation_id, batch, {})

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