(Tcl) Find Contact Having Email Address

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

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load ./chilkat.dll

# 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

set jsonToken [new_CkJsonObject]

set success [CkJsonObject_LoadFile $jsonToken "qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json"]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts "Failed to load googleContacts.json"
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    exit
}

set gAuth [new_CkAuthGoogle]

CkAuthGoogle_put_AccessToken $gAuth [CkJsonObject_stringOf $jsonToken "access_token"]

set rest [new_CkRest]

# Connect using TLS.
set bAutoReconnect 1
set success [CkRest_Connect $rest "www.google.com" 443 1 $bAutoReconnect]

# Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
CkRest_SetAuthGoogle $rest $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:
set emailAddressToFind "admin@chilkatsoft.com"

CkRest_AddHeader $rest "GData-Version" "3.0"
CkRest_AddQueryParam $rest "q" $emailAddressToFind

set sbResponseBody [new_CkStringBuilder]

set success [CkRest_FullRequestNoBodySb $rest "GET" "/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full" $sbResponseBody]
if {$success != 1} then {
    puts [CkRest_lastErrorText $rest]
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkAuthGoogle $gAuth
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponseBody
    exit
}

# A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
if {[CkRest_get_ResponseStatusCode $rest] != 200} then {
    puts "response status code = [CkRest_get_ResponseStatusCode $rest]"
    puts "response status text = [CkRest_responseStatusText $rest]"
    puts "response header: [CkRest_responseHeader $rest]"
    puts "response body: [CkStringBuilder_getAsString $sbResponseBody]"
    delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
    delete_CkAuthGoogle $gAuth
    delete_CkRest $rest
    delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponseBody
    exit
}

# If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
# in the response body.
set xml [new_CkXml]

CkXml_LoadSb $xml $sbResponseBody 0

# See below for a sample response body.
CkXml_SaveXml $xml "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.
set totalResults [CkXml_GetChildIntValue $xml "openSearch:totalResults"]
set startIndex [CkXml_GetChildIntValue $xml "openSearch:startIndex"]
set itemsPerPage [CkXml_GetChildIntValue $xml "openSearch:itemsPerPage"]
puts "totalResults = $totalResults"
puts "startIndex = $startIndex"
puts "itemsPerPage = $itemsPerPage"

# We'll borrow a method from FileAccess to get the contactId from the URL string (see the code in the while loop)
set fac [new_CkFileAccess]

# Iterate over each contact.
set numEntries [CkXml_NumChildrenHavingTag $xml "entry"]
set i 0
while {$i < $numEntries} {
    CkXml_put_I $xml $i
    puts [expr $i + 1] ----
    puts "title: [CkXml_getChildContent $xml {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..
    set idUrl [CkXml_getChildContent $xml "entry[i]|id"]
    puts "id: $idUrl"

    # Use the parsing ability of GetFileName to get the contactId
    set contactId [CkFileAccess_getFileName $fac $idUrl]
    puts "contactId: $contactId"

    set fullName [CkXml_chilkatPath $xml "entry[i]|gd:name|gd:fullName|*"]
    if {[CkXml_get_LastMethodSuccess $xml] == 1} then {
        puts "fullName: $fullName"
    }

    set emailAddress [CkXml_chilkatPath $xml "entry[i]|gd:email|(address)"]
    if {[CkXml_get_LastMethodSuccess $xml] == 1} then {
        puts "email address: $emailAddress"
    }

    set i [expr $i + 1]
}

delete_CkJsonObject $jsonToken
delete_CkAuthGoogle $gAuth
delete_CkRest $rest
delete_CkStringBuilder $sbResponseBody
delete_CkXml $xml
delete_CkFileAccess $fac