[Lazarus] Google APIs

[William Ferreira]

GCalendar will be very welcome!

William de Oliveira Ferreira


Programador Web/Desktop


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> Date: Thu, 7 May 2015 23:00:45 +0200
> From: michael at freepascal.org
> To: lazarus at lazarus.freepascal.org; fpc-devel at lists.freepascal.org; fpc-pascal at lists.freepascal.org
> Subject: [Lazarus] Google APIs
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Some of you may have noticed that a package 'Google APis' has been added to FPC in subversion.
> These contain the Google APIs as generated from the Google Discovery Service (~70 APIS).
> 
> I am of the opinion that such Web APIs have meanwhile the same importance as the native APIS 
> that make up the desktop; the world is increasingly connected to Internet, and Google, MS Office365 
> apis (and many others) will become more and more part of the toolset of a programmer.
> 
> Object Pascal Programmers should not be left behind.
> 
> Mattias Gaertner kindly gave permission to add a package to the 'components' directory of  Lazarus.
> It will register the Google API components on the component palette (it uses the images provided by 
> Google itself)
> 
> Many of the APIS will probably not be used by most programmers, but some of the core APIs will be useful for a lot of people:
> 
> Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Tasks, Google Mail, Blogger, Youtube etc.
> 
> There are already 4 example programs in the package directory, I will add more as time permits
> (Google Mail and Translate are definitely on my list).
> 
> Note: you will need to create OAuth client ID and secret keys to make them work.
> 
> The components as committed to Lazarus SVN will compile out of the box with FPC 3.1.
> 
> The components can also be compiled with FPC 2.6.4 (in fact they were developed with FPC 2.6.4)
> but then some extra files must be copied from the FPC 3.1 repository to the components dir in lazarus.
> (I will commit instructions for this later on)
> 
> One of the design goals was to be able to use the various TCP/IP implementations for FPC;
> FPC 2.6.4 will only work with Synapse, but since 3.1 contains support for the HTTPS protocol, 
> TFPHTTPClient can be used in 3.1.
> 
> Some of the components have been used in some private projects, so they work, but I would welcome experiences,
> suggestions for improvement, comments.
> 
> One thing which I still plan to do is to adapt the code generator so it also creates fpdoc documentation.
> (the code generator is committed to SVN)
> 
> If I broke something in the lazarus SVN or forgot a file (always an option ;) ) please let me know and I 
> will fix it ASAP. But if you don't install the package, there should be no side effects to the commit.
> 
> For those of you that read Blaise Pascal magazine: the Google APIs will be featured in the next issue
> (issue 41 for the English version).
> 
> As usual, comments, suggestions and contributions welcome.
> 
> Michael.
> 
> PS. The REST API for MS Office365 is next.
> 
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