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Google Contacts - Retrieve All Contacts

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Demonstrates how to retrieve the full list of contacts for the Google Contacts API.

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const std = @import("std");
const chilkat = @import("chilkat");

pub fn main(init: std.process.Init) !void {
    const alloc = init.arena.allocator();

    // 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

    const json_token = try chilkat.JsonObject.init();
    defer json_token.deinit();
    json_token.loadFile("qa_data/tokens/googleContacts.json") catch {
        std.debug.print("Failed to load googleContacts.json\n", .{});
        return;
    };

    const g_auth = try chilkat.AuthGoogle.init();
    defer g_auth.deinit();
    g_auth.setAccessToken(try json_token.stringOf(alloc, "access_token"));

    const rest = try chilkat.Rest.init();
    defer rest.deinit();

    // Connect using TLS.
    const b_auto_reconnect = true;
    try rest.connect("www.google.com", 443, true, b_auto_reconnect);

    // Provide the authentication credentials (i.e. the access token)
    rest.setAuthGoogle(g_auth) catch {};

    // ----------------------------------------------
    // 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

    rest.addHeader("GData-Version", "3.0") catch {};

    const sb_response_body = try chilkat.StringBuilder.init();
    defer sb_response_body.deinit();
    rest.fullRequestNoBodySb("GET", "/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full", sb_response_body) catch {
        std.debug.print("{s}\n", .{try rest.getLastErrorText(alloc)});
        return;
    };

    // A successful response will have a status code equal to 200.
    if (rest.getResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
        std.debug.print("response status code = {d}\n", .{rest.getResponseStatusCode()});
        std.debug.print("response status text = {s}\n", .{try rest.getResponseStatusText(alloc)});
        std.debug.print("response header: {s}\n", .{try rest.getResponseHeader(alloc)});
        std.debug.print("response body: {s}\n", .{try sb_response_body.getAsString(alloc)});
        return;
    }

    // If the 200 response was received, then the contacts XML is contained
    // in the response body.
    const xml = try chilkat.Xml.init();
    defer xml.deinit();
    xml.loadSb(sb_response_body, false) catch {};

    // See below for a sample response body.
    xml.saveXml("qa_output/google_contacts.xml") catch {};

    // 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.
    const total_results = xml.getChildIntValue("openSearch:totalResults");
    const start_index = xml.getChildIntValue("openSearch:startIndex");
    const items_per_page = xml.getChildIntValue("openSearch:itemsPerPage");
    std.debug.print("totalResults = {d}\n", .{total_results});
    std.debug.print("startIndex = {d}\n", .{start_index});
    std.debug.print("itemsPerPage = {d}\n", .{items_per_page});

    // We'll borrow a method from FileAccess to get the contactId from the URL string (see the code in the while loop)
    const fac = try chilkat.FileAccess.init();
    defer fac.deinit();

    // Iterate over each contact.
    const num_entries = xml.numChildrenHavingTag("entry");
    var i: i32 = 0;
    while (i < num_entries) {
        xml.setI(i);
        std.debug.print("{d} ----\n", .{i + 1});
        std.debug.print("title: {s}\n", .{try xml.getChildContent(alloc, "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..
        const id_url = try xml.getChildContent(alloc, "entry[i]|id");
        std.debug.print("id: {s}\n", .{id_url});

        // Use the parsing ability of GetFileName to get the contactId
        const contact_id = try fac.getFileName(alloc, id_url);
        std.debug.print("contactId: {s}\n", .{contact_id});

        if (xml.chilkatPath(alloc, "entry[i]|gd:name|gd:fullName|*")) |full_name| {
            std.debug.print("fullName: {s}\n", .{full_name});
        } else |_| {}

        if (xml.chilkatPath(alloc, "entry[i]|gd:email|(address)")) |email_address| {
            std.debug.print("email address: {s}\n", .{email_address});
        } else |_| {}

        i = i + 1;
    }

    // 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>
    //
}