Android™

Download Text File to a String Variable

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This example demonstrates how to download the content of a text file from Google Drive into a string variable. Android™

// Important: Don't forget to include the call to System.loadLibrary
// as shown at the bottom of this code sample.
package com.test;

import android.app.Activity;
import com.chilkatsoft.*;

import android.widget.TextView;
import android.os.Bundle;

public class SimpleActivity extends Activity {

  private static final String TAG = "Chilkat";

  // Called when the activity is first created.
  @Override
  public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

    boolean success = false;

    success = true;

    // It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
    // See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

    // This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
    // Google Drive scope.

    CkAuthGoogle gAuth = new CkAuthGoogle();
    gAuth.put_AccessToken("GOOGLE-DRIVE-ACCESS-TOKEN");

    CkRest rest = new CkRest();

    // Connect using TLS.
    // A single REST object, once connected, can be used for many Google Drive REST API calls.
    // The auto-reconnect indicates that if the already-established HTTPS connection is closed,
    // then it will be automatically re-established as needed.
    boolean bAutoReconnect = true;
    success = rest.Connect("www.googleapis.com",443,true,bAutoReconnect);

    // Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
    rest.SetAuthGoogle(gAuth);

    // ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    // To download a file, we must know the file ID.
    // In a previous example (see Build Local Metadata Cache
    // we built a local cache to make it easy to lookup file IDs given a file path.
    // Let's say we want to download "testFolder/abc/123/pigs.json".
    // First we lookup the fileId in the cache.  With the fileId, we can download the file.
    CkCache gdCache = new CkCache();
    gdCache.put_Level(0);
    gdCache.AddRoot("C:/ckCache/googleDrive");

    String fileId = gdCache.fetchText("testFolder/abc/123/pigs.json");
    if (gdCache.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, "Filepath not found in cache.");
        return;
        }

    // We need to send a GET request like this:
    // GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/fileId?alt=media
    // The fileId is part of the path.
    CkStringBuilder sbPath = new CkStringBuilder();
    sbPath.Append("/drive/v3/files/");
    sbPath.Append(fileId);
    rest.AddQueryParam("alt","media");

    // The FullRequestNoBody returns the file content in the response body.
    String fileContent = rest.fullRequestNoBody("GET",sbPath.getAsString());
    if (rest.get_LastMethodSuccess() != true) {
        Log.i(TAG, rest.lastErrorText());
        return;
        }

    // A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
    if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        Log.i(TAG, "response status code = " + String.valueOf(rest.get_ResponseStatusCode()));
        Log.i(TAG, "response status text = " + rest.responseStatusText());
        Log.i(TAG, "response header: " + rest.responseHeader());
        return;
        }

    Log.i(TAG, fileContent);

    Log.i(TAG, "File downloaded.");

  }

  static {
      System.loadLibrary("chilkat");

      // Note: If the incorrect library name is passed to System.loadLibrary,
      // then you will see the following error message at application startup:
      //"The application <your-application-name> has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again."
  }
}