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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. Visual FoxPro

LOCAL lnSuccess
LOCAL loFac
LOCAL lcAccessToken
LOCAL loHttp
LOCAL loJson
LOCAL loDue
LOCAL loResp

lnSuccess = 0

* 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.

loFac = CreateObject('Chilkat.FileAccess')
lcAccessToken = loFac.ReadEntireTextFile("qa_data/tokens/googleTasks.txt","utf-8")
IF (loFac.LastMethodSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loFac.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFac
    CANCEL
ENDIF

loHttp = CreateObject('Chilkat.Http')

loHttp.AuthToken = lcAccessToken

* Create a new task.
loJson = CreateObject('Chilkat.JsonObject')
loJson.UpdateString("title","Go to grocery store")
loJson.UpdateString("notes","Don't forget to buy apples.")

* The due date of a task is specified as a RFC 3339 timestamp.  It is optional.
loDue = CreateObject('Chilkat.CkDateTime')
loDue.SetFromCurrentSystemTime()
loDue.AddDays(3)
loJson.UpdateString("due",loDue.GetAsTimestamp(0))

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

loResp = CreateObject('Chilkat.HttpResponse')
lnSuccess = loHttp.HttpJson("POST","https://www.googleapis.com/tasks/v1/lists/{$tasklist}/tasks",loJson,"application/json",loResp)
IF (lnSuccess = 0) THEN
    ? loHttp.LastErrorText
    RELEASE loFac
    RELEASE loHttp
    RELEASE loJson
    RELEASE loDue
    RELEASE loResp
    CANCEL
ENDIF

* Show the response body.
? loResp.BodyStr

* Examine the response status code.
? "response status code: " + STR(loResp.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
* 

RELEASE loFac
RELEASE loHttp
RELEASE loJson
RELEASE loDue
RELEASE loResp