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Create New Task and Insert Onto List

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Creates a new Google task and inserts it onto a task list. AutoIt

Local $bSuccess = False

;  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.

$oFac = ObjCreate("Chilkat.FileAccess")
Local $sAccessToken = $oFac.ReadEntireTextFile("qa_data/tokens/googleTasks.txt","utf-8")
If ($oFac.LastMethodSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oFac.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

$oHttp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.Http")

$oHttp.AuthToken = $sAccessToken

;  Create a new task.
$oJson = ObjCreate("Chilkat.JsonObject")
$oJson.UpdateString("title","Go to grocery store")
$oJson.UpdateString("notes","Don't forget to buy apples.")

;  The due date of a task is specified as a RFC 3339 timestamp.  It is optional.
$oDue = ObjCreate("Chilkat.CkDateTime")
$oDue.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
$oDue.AddDays(3)
$oJson.UpdateString("due",$oDue.GetAsTimestamp(False))

;  Insert this task onto the task list w/ id = MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzow
$oHttp.SetUrlVar("tasklist","MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzow")

$oResp = ObjCreate("Chilkat.HttpResponse")
$bSuccess = $oHttp.HttpJson("POST","https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/{$tasklist}/tasks",$oJson,"application/json",$oResp)
If ($bSuccess = False) Then
    ConsoleWrite($oHttp.LastErrorText & @CRLF)
    Exit
EndIf

;  Show the response body.
ConsoleWrite($oResp.BodyStr & @CRLF)

;  Examine the response status code.
ConsoleWrite("response status code: " & $oResp.StatusCode & @CRLF)

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

;  {
;   "kind": "tasks#task",
;   "id": "MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzoxMTg0MzQxMTkzMjM2MDY1",
;   "etag": "\"84_7Cubo3y98GMV9bE3zQclHxhc/MTU1MjQzNDIwMQ\"",
;   "title": "Go to grocery store",
;   "updated": "2019-04-04T17:59:15.000Z",
;   "selfLink": "https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzow/tasks/MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzoxMTg0MzQxMTkzMjM2MDY1",
;   "position": "00000000002147483647",
;   "notes": "Don't forget to buy apples.",
;   "status": "needsAction",
;   "due": "2019-04-07T00:00:00.000Z"
;  }
;  
;  response status code: 200
;