Xojo Plugin
Xojo Plugin
Google Contacts - Retrieve All Contacts
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Demonstrates how to retrieve the full list of contacts for the Google Contacts API.Chilkat Xojo Plugin Downloads
Dim success As Boolean
success = False
// 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
Dim jsonToken As New Chilkat.JsonObject
success = jsonToken.LoadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json")
If (success <> True) Then
System.DebugLog("Failed to load googleContacts.json")
Return
End If
Dim gAuth As New Chilkat.AuthGoogle
gAuth.AccessToken = jsonToken.StringOf("access_token")
Dim rest As New Chilkat.Rest
// Connect using TLS.
Dim bAutoReconnect As Boolean
bAutoReconnect = True
success = rest.Connect("www.google.com",443,True,bAutoReconnect)
// Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
success = 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
// GData-Version: 3.0
success = rest.AddHeader("GData-Version","3.0")
Dim sbResponseBody As New Chilkat.StringBuilder
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full",sbResponseBody)
If (success <> True) Then
System.DebugLog(rest.LastErrorText)
Return
End If
// A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
If (rest.ResponseStatusCode <> 200) Then
System.DebugLog("response status code = " + Str(rest.ResponseStatusCode))
System.DebugLog("response status text = " + rest.ResponseStatusText)
System.DebugLog("response header: " + rest.ResponseHeader)
System.DebugLog("response body: " + sbResponseBody.GetAsString())
Return
End If
// If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
// in the response body.
Dim xml As New Chilkat.Xml
success = xml.LoadSb(sbResponseBody,False)
// See below for a sample response body.
success = 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.
Dim totalResults As Int32
totalResults = xml.GetChildIntValue("openSearch:totalResults")
Dim startIndex As Int32
startIndex = xml.GetChildIntValue("openSearch:startIndex")
Dim itemsPerPage As Int32
itemsPerPage = xml.GetChildIntValue("openSearch:itemsPerPage")
System.DebugLog("totalResults = " + Str(totalResults))
System.DebugLog("startIndex = " + Str(startIndex))
System.DebugLog("itemsPerPage = " + Str(itemsPerPage))
// We'll borrow a method from FileAccess to get the contactId from the URL string (see the code in the while loop)
Dim fac As New Chilkat.FileAccess
// Iterate over each contact.
Dim numEntries As Int32
numEntries = xml.NumChildrenHavingTag("entry")
Dim i As Int32
i = 0
While i < numEntries
xml.I = i
System.DebugLog(Str(i + 1) + " ----")
System.DebugLog("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..
Dim idUrl As String
idUrl = xml.GetChildContent("entry[i]|id")
System.DebugLog("id: " + idUrl)
// Use the parsing ability of GetFileName to get the contactId
Dim contactId As String
contactId = fac.GetFileName(idUrl)
System.DebugLog("contactId: " + contactId)
Dim fullName As String
fullName = xml.ChilkatPath("entry[i]|gd:name|gd:fullName|*")
If (xml.LastMethodSuccess = True) Then
System.DebugLog("fullName: " + fullName)
End If
Dim emailAddress As String
emailAddress = xml.ChilkatPath("entry[i]|gd:email|(address)")
If (xml.LastMethodSuccess = True) Then
System.DebugLog("email address: " + emailAddress)
End If
i = i + 1
Wend
// The response body XML looks something like this:
// <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
// xmlns:openSearch="http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearch/1.1/"
// xmlns:gContact="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008"
// xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch"
// xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"
// gd:etag="feedEtag">
// <id>userEmail</id>
// <updated>2008-12-10T10:04:15.446Z</updated>
// <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind" term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full"/>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#post" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full"/>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full/batch"/>
// <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full?max-results=25"/>
// <author>
// <name>User</name>
// <email>userEmail</email>
// </author>
// <generator version="1.0" uri="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds">
// Contacts
// </generator>
// <openSearch:totalResults>349</openSearch:totalResults>
// <openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex>
// <openSearch:itemsPerPage>25</openSearch:itemsPerPage>
// <entry gd:etag="contactEtag">
// <id>
// http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/base/contactId
// </id>
// <updated>2008-12-10T04:45:03.331Z</updated>
// <app:edited xmlns:app="http://www.w3.org/2007/app">2008-12-10T04:45:03.331Z</app:edited>
// <category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind"
// term="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/>
// <title>Fitzwilliam Darcy</title>
// <gd:name>
// <gd:fullName>Fitzwilliam Darcy</gd:fullName>
// </gd:name>
// <link rel="http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#photo" type="image/*"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/userEmail/contactId"
// gd:etag="photoEtag"/>
// <link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full/contactId"/>
// <link rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml"
// href="https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/userEmail/full/contactId"/>
// <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home"
// primary="true">
// 456
// </gd:phoneNumber>
// <gd:extendedProperty name="pet" value="hamster"/>
// <gContact:groupMembershipInfo deleted="false"
// href="http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/groups/userEmail/base/groupId"/>
// <gd:email rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#other" address="darcyf@example.com" primary="true" />
// </entry>
// <!-- Other entries ... -->
// </feed>
//