OAuth2 was Re: google sheets - anybody doing anything besides mergGoogle
Prothero@earthlearning
prothero at earthlearningsolutions.org
Wed Jul 22 15:04:18 EDT 2020
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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