Lua

Update a Task's Status to "completed"

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Demonstrates how to update a Google task's status to "completed". Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

-- This example requires the Chilkat API to have been previously unlocked.
-- See Global Unlock Sample for sample code.

-- Get the previously obtained access token.
-- See Get Google Tasks Access Token.

local fac = chilkat.FileAccess.new()
local accessToken = fac:read_entire_text_file("qa_data/tokens/googleTasks.txt", "utf-8")
if not fac.last_method_success then
    print(fac.last_error_text)
    return
end

local http = chilkat.Http.new()

http.auth_token = accessToken

local taskId = "MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzoyMDg3OTcyMDA1MTQ5NTA0"

-- Create the JSON to update the task status to completed.
local json = chilkat.JsonObject.new()
json:update_string("id", taskId)
json:update_string("status", "completed")

-- Specify the ID's for both the task list and the task.
http:set_url_var("tasklist", "MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzow")
http:set_url_var("task", taskId)

local url = "https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/{$tasklist}/tasks/{$task}"
local resp = chilkat.HttpResponse.new()
local success = http:http_json("PUT", url, json, "application/json", resp)
if not success then
    print(http.last_error_text)
    return
end

-- Show the response body.
print(resp.body_str)

-- Examine the response status code.
print("response status code: " .. resp.status_code)

-- Sample response:
-- Use this online tool to generate parsing code from sample JSON:
-- Generate Parsing Code from JSON

-- {
--  "kind": "tasks#task",
--  "id": "MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzoyMDg3OTcyMDA1MTQ5NTA0",
--  "etag": "\"84_7Cubo3y98GMV9bE3zQclHxhc/MTQyMDUzMzQ4MA\"",
--  "title": "Get haircut",
--  "updated": "2019-04-04T18:07:58.000Z",
--  "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzow/tasks/MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzoyMDg3OTcyMDA1MTQ5NTA0",
--  "position": "00000000001610612734",
--  "notes": "Check in online first.",
--  "status": "completed",
--  "completed": "2019-04-04T18:38:56.000Z"
-- }
--
-- response status code: 200