Hello David, I just tried using OAuth 2 with the Portable Contacts API and it worked perfectly for me. Can you catch the request sent to the API and make sure that the token is properly passed as a header?
Thanks! Alain On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 4:41 PM, David Tuite <[email protected]> wrote: > Basically I'm trying to get read access to an OAuth2 authenticated users > contacts, using either the Portable Contacts > API<http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/poco/1.0/developers_guide.html>or > the full blown Contacts > API <http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide.html>. > Google have > recently<http://googlecode.blogspot.com/2011/03/making-auth-easier-oauth-20-for-google.html> > started > allowing OAuth2 <http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/docs/OAuth2.html>. > > I can get access to a users contacts via the Contacts API by first getting > the user to authenticate with the scope: "https://www.google.com/m8/feeds";. > Then I can retrieve their first 25 contacts using jQuery (code shown is > CoffeeScript <http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/>) > > $.ajax > url: "https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full"; > dataType: 'jsonp' > data: { access_token: token, alt: 'json-in-script' } > success: (data, status) -> > console.log "The returned data", data > > That works, and I get JSON data. However, the only contacts order that > Google provides (as far as I can tell) is > 'lastmodified<http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/reference.html#Parameters>' > (am I correct with this?). I need something more like 'top friends' or 'most > popular'. > > Which, happens to be something that the Google Portable Contacts API can > do<http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/poco/1.0/developers_guide.html#RetrievingContactsWithQuery>, > (Yay!). Of course, I can't seem to get a successful request to work. > > First, I get the user to authenticate with the portable contacts API by > clicking this link (note the scope: " > https://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people";) > > <a href=" > https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/authclient_id=457681297736.apps.googleusercontent.com&response_type=token&redirect_uri=http://localhost:3000/team&scope=https://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people";>Import > Google Contacts</a> > > That works fine, and I get an access token passed back. > > Next I try to send an ajax request to the portable contacts API > > $.ajax > url: " > https://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@all"; > dataType: 'jsonp' > data: { access_token: token, alt: 'json-in-script' } > success: (data, status) -> > console.log "The returned data", data > > But that returns a 403 Error > > 403 (The currently logged in user and/or the gadget requesting data, > does not have access to people data. > > Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? > > **Appendix** > I found this bug > report<https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/oauth2-dev/bZIoduv0UOc>in the > Google OAuth2 forum which advised that we need to set an > authorization header when working with the Portable Contacts API. So I tried > that like this: > > $.ajax > url: " > https://www-opensocial.googleusercontent.com/api/people/@me/@all"; > dataType: 'jsonp' > data: { access_token: token, alt: 'json-in-script' } > beforeSend: (xhr) -> > xhr.setRequestHeader "Authorization", "OAuth #{token}" > data: { access_token: token } > success: (data, status) -> > console.log "The returned data", data > > But that gets me the same 403 error: > > 403 (The currently logged in user and/or the gadget requesting data, > does not have access to people data > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html > -- Alain Vongsouvanh | Developer Programs Engineer -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/community/forum.html
