Android Question How do you pass an oAuth2 token with HTTPJob.PutString ?

[antsnel]

Hi How do pass the token when using PutString with oAuth2?

e.g.

Dim j As HttpJob
j.Initialize("", Me)
j.PutString("https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets/1oQ ... ")

How do you add the token to the put request ?

 

[Erel]

Please use [code]code here...[/code] tags when posting code.

Google OAuth2 tutorial: [class][B4X] Google OAuth2

How do you add the token to the put request ?

It depends on the specific web service you are calling.

 

[antsnel]

Hi Erel,

Thanks for the reply I can download data from a Google Sheet using your oAuth2 example,

I am now trying to update the same spreadsheet - it also seems I should use PostString and not PutString as per my previous attempt.

API call is documented here:

https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/guides/values#writing_to_a_single_range

Assuming my token is valid and stored in a variable called token,

I need to know how to append the token to this API call when doing a Post or Put (I am also assuming this specific API endpoint supports it)

Thanks

 

[keirS]

Google allow two ways to pass an access token. Either as a query parameter with ?access_token=YourAccessToken or as an HTTP Authorization header: "Authorization: Bearer oauth2-token"

I always use the header but this is counter intuitive in B4A as you set the header after you call PostString. See https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/set-http-request-header-with-httputils2.39413/#content for an example.

 

[antsnel]

Thanks - I passed the token successfully as a query string , however I found you'll also need to tell the Google Sheets API that your submitted data is json:

j.GetRequest.SetContentType("application/json")