Objective-C

Find Contact Having Email Address

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Demonstrates how to fetch the Google Contact for a given email address. Objective-C

#import <CkoJsonObject.h>
#import <CkoAuthGoogle.h>
#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <NSString.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>
#import <CkoXml.h>
#import <CkoFileAccess.h>

BOOL success = NO;

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

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Note: The code for setting up the Chilkat REST object and making the initial connection can be done once.
// Once connected, the REST object may be re-used for many REST API calls.
// (It's a good idea to put the connection setup code in a separate function/subroutine.)
// --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

// It is assumed we previously obtained an OAuth2 access token.
// This example loads the JSON access token file 
// saved by this example: Get Google Contacts OAuth2 Access Token

CkoJsonObject *jsonToken = [[CkoJsonObject alloc] init];
success = [jsonToken LoadFile: @"qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json"];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",@"Failed to load googleContacts.json");
    return;
}

CkoAuthGoogle *gAuth = [[CkoAuthGoogle alloc] init];
gAuth.AccessToken = [jsonToken StringOf: @"access_token"];

CkoRest *rest = [[CkoRest alloc] init];

// Connect using TLS.
BOOL bAutoReconnect = YES;
success = [rest Connect: @"www.google.com" port: [NSNumber numberWithInt: 443] tls: YES autoReconnect: bAutoReconnect];

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
[rest SetAuthGoogle: gAuth];

// ----------------------------------------------
// OK, the REST connection setup is completed..
// ----------------------------------------------

// To retrieve the contacts, we need to send the following:

// 	GET /m8/feeds/contacts/default/full?q=<emailAddress>
// 	GData-Version: 3.0

// Get the contact (or contacts) with this email address:
NSString *emailAddressToFind = @"admin@chilkatsoft.com";

[rest AddHeader: @"GData-Version" value: @"3.0"];
[rest AddQueryParam: @"q" value: emailAddressToFind];

CkoStringBuilder *sbResponseBody = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
success = [rest FullRequestNoBodySb: @"GET" uriPath: @"/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full" sb: sbResponseBody];
if (success != YES) {
    NSLog(@"%@",rest.LastErrorText);
    return;
}

// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if ([rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue] != 200) {
    NSLog(@"%@%d",@"response status code = ",[rest.ResponseStatusCode intValue]);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"response status text = ",rest.ResponseStatusText);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"response header: ",rest.ResponseHeader);
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"response body: ",[sbResponseBody GetAsString]);
    return;
}

// If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
// in the response body.
CkoXml *xml = [[CkoXml alloc] init];
[xml LoadSb: sbResponseBody autoTrim: NO];

// See below for a sample response body.
[xml SaveXml: @"qa_output/google_contacts.xml"];

// Now let's parse the XML...

// Get the the total number of results, the start index, and the items per page.
// We'll likely NOT get the full list, but will instead get the 1st page.
int totalResults = [[xml GetChildIntValue: @"openSearch:totalResults"] intValue];
int startIndex = [[xml GetChildIntValue: @"openSearch:startIndex"] intValue];
int itemsPerPage = [[xml GetChildIntValue: @"openSearch:itemsPerPage"] intValue];
NSLog(@"%@%d",@"totalResults = ",totalResults);
NSLog(@"%@%d",@"startIndex = ",startIndex);
NSLog(@"%@%d",@"itemsPerPage = ",itemsPerPage);

// We'll borrow a method from FileAccess to get the contactId from the URL string (see the code in the while loop)
CkoFileAccess *fac = [[CkoFileAccess alloc] init];

// Iterate over each contact.
int numEntries = [[xml NumChildrenHavingTag: @"entry"] intValue];
int i = 0;
while (i < numEntries) {
    xml.I = [NSNumber numberWithInt: i];
    NSLog(@"%d%@",i + 1,@" ----");
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"title: ",[xml GetChildContent: @"entry[i]|title"]);

    // The entry "id" child contains a URL having this format:
    // <id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/{userEmail}/base/{contactId}</id>
    // Let's get the URL and parse the contactId from it..
    NSString *idUrl = [xml GetChildContent: @"entry[i]|id"];
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"id: ",idUrl);

    // Use the parsing ability of GetFileName to get the contactId
    NSString *contactId = [fac GetFileName: idUrl];
    NSLog(@"%@%@",@"contactId: ",contactId);

    NSString *fullName = [xml ChilkatPath: @"entry[i]|gd:name|gd:fullName|*"];
    if (xml.LastMethodSuccess == YES) {
        NSLog(@"%@%@",@"fullName: ",fullName);
    }

    NSString *emailAddress = [xml ChilkatPath: @"entry[i]|gd:email|(address)"];
    if (xml.LastMethodSuccess == YES) {
        NSLog(@"%@%@",@"email address: ",emailAddress);
    }

    i = i + 1;
}