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Objective-C

Retrieve a Single Contact

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Demonstrates how to retrieve a single contact (by contactId) for the Google Contacts API.

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Objective-C
#import <CkoJsonObject.h>
#import <CkoAuthGoogle.h>
#import <CkoRest.h>
#import <CkoStringBuilder.h>
#import <CkoXml.h>
#import <NSString.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 contact, send the following:

// 	GET /m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}
// 	GData-Version: 3.0

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

CkoStringBuilder *sbPath = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
[sbPath Append: @"/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}"];
// Get the contact having contactId = "7b1c7b6409e718a0"
int numReplacements = [[sbPath Replace: @"{contactId}" replacement: @"7b1c7b6409e718a0"] intValue];

CkoStringBuilder *sbResponseBody = [[CkoStringBuilder alloc] init];
success = [rest FullRequestNoBodySb: @"GET" uriPath: [sbPath GetAsString] 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_contact.xml"];

// Now let's parse the XML...
NSLog(@"%@%@",@"title: ",[xml GetChildContent: @"title"]);

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

// The response body XML looks something like this:

// 	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
// 	<entry gd:etag="&quot;R3kzezVSLit7I2A9XRFaFE8DQAU.&quot;" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" xmlns:gContact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
// 	    <id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/base/7b1c7b6409e718a0</id>
// 	    <updated>2016-11-18T00:41:56.783Z</updated>
// 	    <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2016-11-18T00:41:56.783Z</app:edited>
// 	    <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact" />
// 	    <title>Chilkat Cloud</title>
// 	    <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo" type="image/*" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/support%40chilkatcloud.com/7b1c7b6409e718a0" gd:etag="&quot;fgVhPls4Sit7I2BWHUlTWkQMKHUZKHkkaiw.&quot;" />
// 	    <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/full/7b1c7b6409e718a0" />
// 	    <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" href="https://www.googleapis.com/m8/feeds/contacts/support%40chilkatcloud.com/full/7b1c7b6409e718a0" />
// 	    <gd:name>
// 	        <gd:fullName>Chilkat Cloud</gd:fullName>
// 	        <gd:givenName>Chilkat</gd:givenName>
// 	        <gd:familyName>Cloud</gd:familyName>
// 	    </gd:name>
// 	    <gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other" address="support@chilkatcloud.com" primary="true" />
// 	    <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false" href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/groups/support%40chilkatcloud.com/base/6" />
// 	</entry>