On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 6:00 PM, Michael Van Canneyt <mich...@freepascal.org> wrote: > > 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.
I use Google Drive, and probably I'll use the googledrive unit to manage my online files via Pascal. It is a very nice contribuition to FPC community, thanks a lot buddy! (y) -- Silvio Clécio My public projects - github.com/silvioprog
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