OAuth2 was Re: google sheets - anybody doing anything besides mergGoogle
Ben Rubinstein
benr at cogapp.com
Mon Jul 27 13:52:37 EDT 2020
Hi Bill (and Neville)
Happy to post it - I'll try to do a bit of cleanup and commenting first.
(Honestly I think it's probably just going to be an email to the list.) Afore
I do, I had this question:
> (I say library - currently it's a button I copy and paste to stacks where I
> need it, and "insert the script of". I've completely lost track of how real
> "libraries" should be packaged. Where should I look?)
What is the currently approved method for a "library"?
TIA,
Ben
On 22/07/2020 20:04, Prothero at earthlearning via use-livecode wrote:
> Ben,
> Any chance of posting a demo stack somewhere? It sounds very useful.
> Thanks,
> Bill
>
> William Prothero
> http://es.earthednet.org
>
>> On Jul 22, 2020, at 10:13 AM, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Ah, shame. It turned out it was (IIUC) just a change in the way Google did their tokens which exposed a bug, now fixed, in how LC did OAuth - nothing to do with the general API changing.
>>
>> At any rate, I do have a very basic library which I use to read and write Google sheets, in case it's of use to anyone.
>>
>> (I say library - currently it's a button I copy and paste to stacks where I need it, and "insert the script of". I've completely lost track of how real "libraries" should be packaged. Where should I look?)
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>> On 21/07/2020 14:49, Mike Kerner wrote:
>>> I got impatient/spooked so we went another direction. I think we're going to use other tools.
>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 10:00 AM Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>>> Hi Mike,
>>> Brian Milby put me on to the solution for the OAuth problem:
>>> > Check out bug 22557 / PR 7381.
>>> > Line 247 of oath2.livecodescript need urlEncode removed
>>> Are you still interested in this, or are you covered now?
>>> regards,
>>> Ben
>>> On 11/03/2020 20:45, Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode wrote:
>>> > Hi Mike,
>>> >
>>> > I haven't forgotten, but finally found time to take a look today and
>>> started
>>> > writing minimal comments, and thought I should at least test it - for some
>>> > reason the authorisation isn't working. For whatever reason, the call to
>>> > OAuth2 results in the error "Malformed auth code." So I can't get to
>>> test what
>>> > I'm sending.
>>> >
>>> > I'm unclear whether I've done something strange or wrong, or whether
>>> Google
>>> > has changed something that breaks LC's implementation. I've come across
>>> > references which suggest that, but they date back to last year, and I
>>> believe
>>> > I've used this stack in January. (I also tried using LC 9.0.4 with the
>>> same
>>> > result.)
>>> >
>>> > I will try to get back to this. In the meantime, have you - or anyone -
>>> found
>>> > issues recently with OAuth2, in particular against any of the Google APIs?
>>> >
>>> > Ben
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 08/03/2020 22:22, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
>>> >> it might help us get started. i'm going to probably put out an rfq to
>>> wrap
>>> >> the v4 rest api, because we're going to have to come to a solution, either
>>> >> using lc or some other tool.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 6:01 PM Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <
>>> >> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >>> Mike,
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Very happy to share what I've got, but it's really not much - just a very
>>> >>> thin
>>> >>> wrapper round Google's API - and it's undocumented, mostly rough code -
>>> >>> copied
>>> >>> from one stack to the next, usually done in a tearing hurry!
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I'll try to pull something together, but please promise not to judge
>>> me...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Ben
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 06/03/2020 15:13, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
>>> >>>> Ben,
>>> >>>> would you send me what you've got? I was considering paying someone to
>>> >>>> wrap the entire v4 api and dropping mergGoogle, so any head start would
>>> >>> be
>>> >>>> useful. LC wants tribute to do the work (which is a little
>>> disappointing
>>> >>>> since we financed the original external, so we sort-of hoped that it
>>> >>> would
>>> >>>> become a thing, and it would get updated as required, but crap happens).
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 6:04 PM Ben Rubinstein via use-livecode <
>>> >>>> use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>>> <mailto:use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>> wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> On 04/03/2020 20:37, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
>>> >>>>>> is anyone using anything besides mergGoogle to work with google
>>> sheets?
>>> >>>>>> care to share, if you are?
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I'm just using the Google Sheets API directly from LiveCode - just
>>> >>> pushing
>>> >>>>> JSON back and forth. The API is limited, but what's there is very easy
>>> >>> to
>>> >>>>> work
>>> >>>>> with - much better than manipulating xlsx files.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> I started using it to get data from clients, and then processing data
>>> >>> and
>>> >>>>> pushing it back into the sheets. I've also used on some experimental
>>> >>> image
>>> >>>>> processing, where I found that pushing the results of LiveCode
>>> functions
>>> >>>>> into
>>> >>>>> a google sheet immediately gave me an nice interface in which to review
>>> >>>>> the
>>> >>>>> data, and then I could also use the spreadsheet functions to do
>>> >>> evaluation
>>> >>>>> and
>>> >>>>> testing.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Ben
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> ____
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