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Update a Task's Status to "completed"

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

Dim taskId As String = "MDM4MzQ4NTA3NDQwMDUxMzQ2OTQ6NzAwOTA4MDA1NzU2ODYwMzoyMDg3OTcyMDA1MTQ5NTA0"

'  Create the JSON to update the task status to completed.
Dim json As ChilkatJsonObject
json.Initialize
json.UpdateString("id", taskId)
json.UpdateString("status", "completed")

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

Dim url As String = "https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/{$tasklist}/tasks/{$task}"
Dim resp As ChilkatHttpResponse
resp.Initialize
success = http.HttpJson("PUT", url, 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": "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