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Awesome gem, thanks a lot for your hard work.

I struggle to connect through oAuth, would you mind giving detailed step by step instructions on what to do to obtain the oauth_access_token_for_user?

Hi,

I am using GoogleOauth2 strategy in my application and upon authentication, the strategy is giving me OauthHash with access_token and refresh_token. I am not sure how to proceed with using that data to get contacts. the contacts API is asking for OAuth2::AccessToken object but i am getting Omniauth::AuthHash from strategy. Any idea how to get the same?

After a user oauth's with omniauth we save the oauth_token as a string. In this gem you require the access_token as an object. How do we go from one to the other?

I am trying to use this gem to authenticate my web application with the contacts API to create new contacts for a specific user. My assumption is that the underlying google account user who enables the contacts API on the console.developers.google.com portal can create service accounts that access its contact data. If this assumption is right, then using this gem should allow me to use application default credentials https://developers.google.com/identity/protocols/application-default-credentials to fetch that data using a service account instead of a Client-Server authentication workflow, which it seems that this gem primarily supports.

Any ideas on how I can use this gem to perform a server-to-server authentication workflow using application default credentials instead of a client-server one? Thanks in advance!

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/31151310/what-is-the-id-of-the-starred-contacts-group-in-the-google-contacts-api

I can't seem to get the contacts in the starred group. Will your library do that?

Thanks @aliang

You could pass the Google Account you want to use and possibly password as environment variables, and it could run a test on Google's servers.

This is to protect against API changes on Google's end

We don't really need to see the gory details of the Api object, do we?

A lot of people have trouble getting the access token from Google's server

can we add a new contacts by using this gem?

hi, I'm loving your gem. Right now, calling contacts returns all of a user's contacts. Ideally, I'd like to get back "Most Contacted or Frequently Contacted" but after researching it appears that is not available via the APIs. The 2nd best idea is to return the contacts sorted by:

query.orderby = 'lastmodified'

Which apparently is the default setting listed here: https://developers.google.com/google-apps/contacts/v3/#retrieving_contacts_using_query_parameters

However, this gem doesn't seem to have any sort order, the ordering appears to be random.

With your gem is it possible to sort or return just the X last modified contacts? Or better yet, per the contact record include a "last_modified" timestamp?

Thank you again for all the work! It's really great and helpful

I am getting following error

uninitialized constant Api::TransactionController::GoogleContactsApi

when i try to initiliaze the constructor

google_contacts_user = GoogleContactsApi::User.new(oauth_access_token_for_user)

It's all OAuth 2.0 now