OAuth2 was Re: google sheets - anybody doing anything besides mergGoogle

[Mike Kerner]

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> 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> 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> 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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