Delphi DLL

Google Drive Insert Permission

See more Google Drive Examples

This example demonstrates how to insert a permission for a file (see https://developers.google.com/drive/v2/reference/permissions/insert)

The impetus for creating this example was a need to be able to view files uploaded using a service account key in the Google Drive web interface. When using a service account access token, the files your application will see are those for the service account, and not the files for your main account. For example, the Google Account I use for testing has a username of "support@chilkatcloud.com". (Don't send email to support@chilkatcloud.com, it's just use for testing and not interactively read.) I use "support@chilkatcloud.com" when I log into Google interactively to view files in Google Drive at https://drive.google.com/drive/my-drive.

The files I upload to Google Drive using a service account key won't be visible in the browser UI. To make them visible, you need to insert a permission for the file so that the main user account, which in this case is "support@chilkatcloud.com", is a reader. After the permission is inserted, the file will be visible under "Shared with me" -- as if another Google Drive account shared the file with you.

Delphi DLL

uses
    Winapi.Windows, Winapi.Messages, System.SysUtils, System.Variants, System.Classes, Vcl.Graphics,
    Vcl.Controls, Vcl.Forms, Vcl.Dialogs, Vcl.StdCtrls, AuthGoogle, JsonObject, Rest;

...

procedure TForm1.Button1Click(Sender: TObject);
var
success: Boolean;
gAuth: HCkAuthGoogle;
rest: HCkRest;
bAutoReconnect: Boolean;
json: HCkJsonObject;
jsonResponse: PWideChar;

begin
success := False;

success := True;

// It requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
// See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

// This example uses a previously obtained access token having permission for the 
// Google Drive scope.

gAuth := CkAuthGoogle_Create();
CkAuthGoogle_putAccessToken(gAuth,'GOOGLE-DRIVE-ACCESS-TOKEN');

rest := CkRest_Create();

// Connect using TLS.
bAutoReconnect := True;
success := CkRest_Connect(rest,'www.googleapis.com',443,True,bAutoReconnect);

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
CkRest_SetAuthGoogle(rest,gAuth);

CkRest_AddHeader(rest,'Content-Type','application/json; charset=UTF-8');

json := CkJsonObject_Create();
CkJsonObject_AppendString(json,'role','reader');
CkJsonObject_AppendString(json,'type','user');
CkJsonObject_AppendString(json,'value','support@chilkatcloud.com');

// A note from a Chilkat customer:
// 
//   My coding attempt was frustrated because I tried a role of "owner".
//   Even when providing the extra parameter of ...?transferOwnership=true
//   that approach fails (400, Bad Request).
// 

// This example is inserting a permission for the file whose fileId is "0By-hrxCCDzSQUGxJY0hzNUFpNmc".
jsonResponse := CkRest__fullRequestString(rest,'POST','/drive/v2/files/0By-hrxCCDzSQUGxJY0hzNUFpNmc/permissions',CkJsonObject__emit(json));
if (CkRest_getLastMethodSuccess(rest) <> True) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add(CkRest__lastErrorText(rest));
    Exit;
  end;

// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if (CkRest_getResponseStatusCode(rest) <> 200) then
  begin
    Memo1.Lines.Add('response status code = ' + IntToStr(CkRest_getResponseStatusCode(rest)));
    Memo1.Lines.Add('response status text = ' + CkRest__responseStatusText(rest));
    Memo1.Lines.Add('response header: ' + CkRest__responseHeader(rest));
    Memo1.Lines.Add('response JSON: ' + jsonResponse);
    Exit;
  end;

// Show the JSON response.
CkJsonObject_Load(json,jsonResponse);

// Show the full JSON response.
CkJsonObject_putEmitCompact(json,False);
Memo1.Lines.Add(CkJsonObject__emit(json));

Memo1.Lines.Add('Success.');

CkAuthGoogle_Dispose(gAuth);
CkRest_Dispose(rest);
CkJsonObject_Dispose(json);

end;