Smalltalk Daily 09/30/10: Using the Google Calendar API

Today's Smalltalk Daily looks at using the client authentication to Google we built yesterday. Today's screencast builds a small example of interfacing to Google to get your calendar settings. The code I'm demonstrating is in the public store repository under the name GCal-Example - the usage in the screencast is below. To skip to the video, click here.

"get the request token - cl is the calendar service"
gAuth := AuthRequest 
	requestTokenFor: 'cl' 
	user: username
	password: password
	clientName: 'Cincom-VisualWorks-771'.

"get settings the hard way"
settingsRequest := SettingsRequest new user: username.
settingsResponse := ServiceRequest
					makeRequestWith: gAuth
					requestPrepObject: settingsRequest.
CalendarSettings from: ((JsonReader 
		readFrom: settingsResponse contents readStream)
	 at: 'data').

"make it simpler"
SettingsRequester getSettingsFor: username using: gAuth

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