Re: *afpds spooled file not printing correctly on ip attached printer

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Without a browser on your device  you have 2 options when dealing with
OAuth 2.0 and Google APIs:

1.  Service account
2.  2-Legged

With option 1, you'll get used to receiving the error "invalid_scope" for
some of the APIs, like drive.  I've confirmed with Google they have some of
them turned off right now and that's whey the error happens.

With option 2 you have to store the userid and pw of the account which
defeats the purpose and intention of OAuth 2.0 (ie, you don't have to know
or ask for their account id and pw).  Not sure it's as "easy" as it was
with 1.0 as well.

Anything is possible, and I could have written something to mimick a
browser, but with the service account option (which you would use on
devices that don't have browsers, like a fridge or IBM i) I'm sure the APIs
will open up soon enough.

You still have to USE a browser with the service account.  But it isn't as
seamless as if you were using a PC or Android phone where the user is
already logged into their google account on that device and therefore just
gives authority to use the specific API/service/app.

Brad
www.bvstools.com



On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 12:29 PM, Richard Schoen <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Nope, don't get your newsletter :-)
>
> Look at the OAuth2 examples on the google site.  Looks doable without an
> actual browser so not sure why you wouldn't want to use it. Java has HTTP
> classes you can utilize which I'm sure you know about.
>
> Now to be fair I'm at the front end of my project, so I may be back
> shortly looking for advice, but the code samples look workable to me.
>
> Regards,
> Richard Schoen
> RJS Software Systems Inc.
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> message: 3
> date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 11:13:42 -0600
> from: Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>
> subject: Re: *afpds spooled file not printing correctly on ip attached
>         printer
>
> Richard,
>
> I have (must not get my newsletter!  lol).
>
> They currently don't give access to certain APIs via the interface
> required for the IBM i since there's no integrated browser via OAuth 2.0.
>  They may via the depreciated login process, but that's going away in a
> couple years so I chose not to go down that route.
>
> I've already integrated Google Cloud Print and Google Calendar (
> www.bvstools.com/g4g.html) using OAuth 2.0, which is what Google is using
> now for security.
>
> I would have (and will have) a lot more features (such as google drive) if
> they allowed access to the APIs for us running that would use a service
> type account.  But I want to keep it native to the IBM i.  And they claim
> that they will be opening up API access in the future.
>
> Yes, once could probably "Fake" the web interface but that would be MESSY.
>
>
>
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