SQL Server

Upload Media for Google Photos

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Demonstrates how to upload a media file (such as a JPG image) that will be placed in a Google Photos album. Uploading is a two-step process:

1. Upload the raw bytes to a Google Server. This doesn't result in any media items being created in the user’s Google Photos account. Instead, it returns an upload token which identifies the uploaded bytes.
2. Use the upload token to create the media item in the user’s Google Photos account. You can choose whether the media should be also added to a specific album.

This example shows step 1.

SQL Server

-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    DECLARE @iTmp0 int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 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 Photos Access Token.

    DECLARE @jsonToken int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.JsonObject', @jsonToken OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @jsonToken, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/tokens/googlePhotos.json'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @jsonToken, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonToken
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @http int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Http', @http OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @jsonToken, 'StringOf', @sTmp0 OUT, 'access_token'
    EXEC sp_OASetProperty @http, 'AuthToken', @sTmp0

    -- This is the HTTPS POST we'll be sending:
    -- POST https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads
    -- Authorization: Bearer OAUTH2_TOKEN
    -- Content-type: application/octet-stream
    -- X-Goog-Upload-File-Name: FILENAME
    -- X-Goog-Upload-Protocol: raw

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'SetRequestHeader', NULL, 'X-Goog-Upload-File-Name', 'penguins.jpg'
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'SetRequestHeader', NULL, 'X-Goog-Upload-Protocol', 'raw'

    -- Assuming the media isn't super large, we'll just read it into memory and send.
    -- (Another example exists for streaming a large media file directly from the filesystem.)

    -- Load the media file into memory.
    DECLARE @bdMedia int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.BinData', @bdMedia OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @bdMedia, 'LoadFile', @success OUT, 'qa_data/jpg/penguins.jpg'

    DECLARE @url nvarchar(4000)
    SELECT @url = 'https://photoslibrary.googleapis.com/v1/uploads'
    DECLARE @resp int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.HttpResponse', @resp OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'HttpBd', @success OUT, 'POST', @url, @bdMedia, 'application/octet-stream', @resp
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @http, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonToken
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @bdMedia
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp
        RETURN
      END

    -- Examine the response status code.  Success is indicated by a status code of 200.

    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    PRINT 'response status code: ' + @iTmp0

    -- Show the response body.
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'StatusCode', @iTmp0 OUT
    IF @iTmp0 = 200
      BEGIN
        -- Success.

        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT 'Upload token: ' + @sTmp0
      END
    ELSE
      BEGIN

        PRINT 'Error:'
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @resp, 'BodyStr', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
      END

    -- Clear headers such as X-Goog-Upload-File-Name for subsequent HTTP requests sent on this object..
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @http, 'ClearHeaders', NULL

    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @jsonToken
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @http
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @bdMedia
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @resp


END
GO