PowerBuilder

Retrieve a Single Contact

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

integer li_rc
integer li_Success
oleobject loo_JsonToken
oleobject loo_GAuth
oleobject loo_Rest
integer li_BAutoReconnect
oleobject loo_SbPath
integer li_NumReplacements
oleobject loo_SbResponseBody
oleobject loo_Xml
string ls_EmailAddress

li_Success = 0

// 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

loo_JsonToken = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_JsonToken.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.JsonObject")
if li_rc < 0 then
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    MessageBox("Error","Connecting to COM object failed")
    return
end if
li_Success = loo_JsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json")
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug "Failed to load googleContacts.json"
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    return
end if

loo_GAuth = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_GAuth.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.AuthGoogle")

loo_GAuth.AccessToken = loo_JsonToken.StringOf("access_token")

loo_Rest = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Rest.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Rest")

// Connect using TLS.
li_BAutoReconnect = 1
li_Success = loo_Rest.Connect("www.google.com",443,1,li_BAutoReconnect)

// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
loo_Rest.SetAuthGoogle(loo_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

loo_Rest.AddHeader("GData-Version","3.0")

loo_SbPath = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbPath.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

loo_SbPath.Append("/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}")
// Get the contact having contactId = "7b1c7b6409e718a0"
li_NumReplacements = loo_SbPath.Replace("{contactId}","7b1c7b6409e718a0")

loo_SbResponseBody = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_SbResponseBody.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.StringBuilder")

li_Success = loo_Rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET",loo_SbPath.GetAsString(),loo_SbResponseBody)
if li_Success <> 1 then
    Write-Debug loo_Rest.LastErrorText
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    destroy loo_GAuth
    destroy loo_Rest
    destroy loo_SbPath
    destroy loo_SbResponseBody
    return
end if

// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if loo_Rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200 then
    Write-Debug "response status code = " + string(loo_Rest.ResponseStatusCode)
    Write-Debug "response status text = " + loo_Rest.ResponseStatusText
    Write-Debug "response header: " + loo_Rest.ResponseHeader
    Write-Debug "response body: " + loo_SbResponseBody.GetAsString()
    destroy loo_JsonToken
    destroy loo_GAuth
    destroy loo_Rest
    destroy loo_SbPath
    destroy loo_SbResponseBody
    return
end if

// If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
// in the response body.
loo_Xml = create oleobject
li_rc = loo_Xml.ConnectToNewObject("Chilkat.Xml")

loo_Xml.LoadSb(loo_SbResponseBody,0)

// See below for a sample response body.
loo_Xml.SaveXml("qa_output/google_contact.xml")

// Now let's parse the XML...
Write-Debug "title: " + loo_Xml.GetChildContent("title")

ls_EmailAddress = loo_Xml.ChilkatPath("gd:email|(address)")
if loo_Xml.LastMethodSuccess = 1 then
    Write-Debug "email address: " + ls_EmailAddress
end if

// 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>


destroy loo_JsonToken
destroy loo_GAuth
destroy loo_Rest
destroy loo_SbPath
destroy loo_SbResponseBody
destroy loo_Xml