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Google Contacts - Retrieve All Contacts
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Demonstrates how to retrieve the full list of contacts for the Google Contacts API.Chilkat Lianja Downloads
llSuccess = .F.
// This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Note: The code for setting up the Chilkat REST object and making the initial connection can be done once.
// Once connected, the REST object may be re-used for many REST API calls.
// (It's a good idea to put the connection setup code in a separate function/subroutine.)
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// It is assumed we previously obtained an OAuth2 access token.
// This example loads the JSON access token file
// saved by this example: Get Google Contacts OAuth2 Access Token
loJsonToken = createobject("CkJsonObject")
llSuccess = loJsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json")
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
? "Failed to load googleContacts.json"
release loJsonToken
return
endif
loGAuth = createobject("CkAuthGoogle")
loGAuth.AccessToken = loJsonToken.StringOf("access_token")
loRest = createobject("CkRest")
// Connect using TLS.
llBAutoReconnect = .T.
llSuccess = loRest.Connect("www.google.com",443,.T.,llBAutoReconnect)
// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
loRest.SetAuthGoogle(loGAuth)
// ----------------------------------------------
// OK, the REST connection setup is completed..
// ----------------------------------------------
// To retrieve the contacts, we need to send the following:
// GET /m8/feeds/contacts/default/full
// GData-Version: 3.0
loRest.AddHeader("GData-Version","3.0")
loSbResponseBody = createobject("CkStringBuilder")
llSuccess = loRest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full",loSbResponseBody)
if (llSuccess <> .T.) then
? loRest.LastErrorText
release loJsonToken
release loGAuth
release loRest
release loSbResponseBody
return
endif
// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if (loRest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) then
? "response status code = " + str(loRest.ResponseStatusCode)
? "response status text = " + loRest.ResponseStatusText
? "response header: " + loRest.ResponseHeader
? "response body: " + loSbResponseBody.GetAsString()
release loJsonToken
release loGAuth
release loRest
release loSbResponseBody
return
endif
// If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
// in the response body.
loXml = createobject("CkXml")
loXml.LoadSb(loSbResponseBody,.F.)
// See below for a sample response body.
loXml.SaveXml("qa_output/google_contacts.xml")
// Now let's parse the XML...
// Get the the total number of results, the start index, and the items per page.
// We'll likely NOT get the full list, but will instead get the 1st page.
lnTotalResults = loXml.GetChildIntValue("openSearch:totalResults")
lnStartIndex = loXml.GetChildIntValue("openSearch:startIndex")
lnItemsPerPage = loXml.GetChildIntValue("openSearch:itemsPerPage")
? "totalResults = " + str(lnTotalResults)
? "startIndex = " + str(lnStartIndex)
? "itemsPerPage = " + str(lnItemsPerPage)
// We'll borrow a method from FileAccess to get the contactId from the URL string (see the code in the while loop)
loFac = createobject("CkFileAccess")
// Iterate over each contact.
lnNumEntries = loXml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry")
i = 0
do while i < lnNumEntries
loXml.I = i
? str(i + 1) + " ----"
? "title: " + loXml.GetChildContent("entry[i]|title")
// The entry "id" child contains a URL having this format:
// <id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/{userEmail}/base/{contactId}</id>
// Let's get the URL and parse the contactId from it..
lcIdUrl = loXml.GetChildContent("entry[i]|id")
? "id: " + lcIdUrl
// Use the parsing ability of GetFileName to get the contactId
lcContactId = loFac.GetFileName(lcIdUrl)
? "contactId: " + lcContactId
lcFullName = loXml.ChilkatPath("entry[i]|gd:name|gd:fullName|*")
if (loXml.LastMethodSuccess = .T.) then
? "fullName: " + lcFullName
endif
lcEmailAddress = loXml.ChilkatPath("entry[i]|gd:email|(address)")
if (loXml.LastMethodSuccess = .T.) then
? "email address: " + lcEmailAddress
endif
i = i + 1
enddo
// The response body XML looks something like this:
// <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
// xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
// xmlns:gContact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008"
// xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch"
// xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"
// gd:etag="feedEtag">
// <id>userEmail</id>
// <updated>2008-12-10T10:04:15.446Z</updated>
// <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full"/>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#post" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full"/>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full/batch"/>
// <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full?max-results=25"/>
// <author>
// <name>User</name>
// <email>userEmail</email>
// </author>
// <generator version="1.0" uri="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds">
// Contacts
// </generator>
// <openSearch:totalResults>349</openSearch:totalResults>
// <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
// <openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
// <entry gd:etag="contactEtag">
// <id>
// http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/base/contactId
// </id>
// <updated>2008-12-10T04:45:03.331Z</updated>
// <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-12-10T04:45:03.331Z</app:edited>
// <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind"
// term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
// <title>Fitzwilliam Darcy</title>
// <gd:name>
// <gd:fullName>Fitzwilliam Darcy</gd:fullName>
// </gd:name>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo" type="image/*"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/userEmail/contactId"
// gd:etag="photoEtag"/>
// <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full/contactId"/>
// <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full/contactId"/>
// <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home"
// primary="true">
// 456
// </gd:phoneNumber>
// <gd:extendedProperty name="pet" value="hamster"/>
// <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false"
// href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/groups/userEmail/base/groupId"/>
// <gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other" address="darcyf@example.com" primary="true" />
// </entry>
// <!-- Other entries ... -->
// </feed>
//
release loJsonToken
release loGAuth
release loRest
release loSbResponseBody
release loXml
release loFac