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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. B4X

Dim success As Boolean = 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.

Dim fac As ChilkatFileAccess
fac.Initialize
Dim accessToken As String = fac.ReadEntireTextFile("qa_data/tokens/googleTasks.txt", "utf-8")
If fac.LastMethodSuccess = False Then
    Log(fac.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


Dim http As ChilkatHttp
http.Initialize("http")

http.AuthToken = accessToken

'  Create a new task.
Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
json.UpdateString("title", "Go to grocery store")
json.UpdateString("notes", "Don't forget to buy apples.")

'  The due date of a task is specified as a RFC 3339 timestamp.  It is optional.
Dim due As ChilkatDateTime
due.Initialize
due.SetFromCurrentSystemTime
due.AddDays(3)
json.UpdateString("due", due.GetAsTimestamp(False))

'  Insert this task onto the task list w/ id = MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzow
http.SetUrlVar("tasklist", "MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzow")

Dim resp As ChilkatHttpResponse
resp.Initialize
success = http.HttpJson("POST", "https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/{$tasklist}/tasks", json, "application/json", resp)
If success = False Then
    Log(http.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If


'  Show the response body.
Log(resp.BodyStr)

'  Examine the response status code.
Log("response status code: " & resp.StatusCode)

'  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
'