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Page Through All Contacts

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Demonstrates how to page through the entire list of Google Contacts.

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Perl
use chilkat();

$success = 0;

# 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

$jsonToken = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$success = $jsonToken->LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json");
if ($success != 1) {
    print "Failed to load googleContacts.json" . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$gAuth = chilkat::CkAuthGoogle->new();
$gAuth->put_AccessToken($jsonToken->stringOf("access_token"));

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

# Connect using TLS.
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("www.google.com",443,1,$bAutoReconnect);

# Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
$rest->SetAuthGoogle($gAuth);

# ----------------------------------------------
# OK, the REST connection setup is completed..
# ----------------------------------------------

$startIndex = 1;
$maxResults = 25;
# The totalResults will get updated with the correct value in the 1st loop iteration..
$totalResults = 100;
# To retrieve the contacts in pages of 25 each, we need to send the following for each page.

# 	GET /m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?max-results=25&start-index=<startIndex>
# 	GData-Version: 3.0

$sbMaxResults = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$sbMaxResults->AppendInt($maxResults);
$sbStartIndex = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();

$loopIteration = 0;
while ($startIndex <= $totalResults) {

    $sbStartIndex->Clear();
    $sbStartIndex->AppendInt($startIndex);

    $rest->ClearAllHeaders();
    $rest->ClearAllQueryParams();
    $rest->AddHeader("GData-Version","3.0");
    $rest->AddQueryParam("start-index",$sbStartIndex->getAsString());
    $rest->AddQueryParam("max-results",$sbMaxResults->getAsString());

    $sbResponseBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
    $success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full",$sbResponseBody);
    if ($success != 1) {
        print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
        exit;
    }

    # A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
    if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        print "response status code = " . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\r\n";
        print "response status text = " . $rest->responseStatusText() . "\r\n";
        print "response header: " . $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
        print "response body: " . $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\r\n";
        exit;
    }

    # If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
    # in the response body.
    $xml = chilkat::CkXml->new();
    $xml->LoadSb($sbResponseBody,0);

    # 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.
    $totalResults = $xml->GetChildIntValue("openSearch:totalResults");
    $startIndex2 = $xml->GetChildIntValue("openSearch:startIndex");
    $itemsPerPage = $xml->GetChildIntValue("openSearch:itemsPerPage");
    print "totalResults = " . $totalResults . "\r\n";
    print "startIndex = " . $startIndex2 . "\r\n";
    print "itemsPerPage = " . $itemsPerPage . "\r\n";

    # Iterate over each contact.
    $numEntries = $xml->NumChildrenHavingTag("entry");
    $i = 0;
    while ($i < $numEntries) {
        $xml->put_I($i);
        print ($loopIteration * $maxResults + $i + 1) . " ----" . "\r\n";
        print "title: " . $xml->getChildContent("entry[i]|title") . "\r\n";

        $idUrl = $xml->getChildContent("entry[i]|id");
        print "id: " . $idUrl . "\r\n";

        $fullName = $xml->chilkatPath("entry[i]|gd:name|gd:fullName|*");
        if ($xml->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 1) {
            print "fullName: " . $fullName . "\r\n";
        }

        $emailAddress = $xml->chilkatPath("entry[i]|gd:email|(address)");
        if ($xml->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 1) {
            print "email address: " . $emailAddress . "\r\n";
        }

        # Find the photo link and check to see if this contact has a photo.
        # xLink is a Xml
        $xLink = $xml->GetChildWithAttr("link","rel","http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo");
        if ($xml->get_LastMethodSuccess() == 1) {
            # Get the photo etag.
            $bHasPhoto = $xLink->HasAttribute("gd:etag");
            if ($bHasPhoto == 1) {
                print "This contact has a photo." . "\r\n";
            }

        }

        $i = $i + 1;
    }

    $startIndex = $startIndex + $maxResults;
    $loopIteration = $loopIteration + 1;
}