Drive SDK Example Error

[Bob Hancock]

I cut and pasted the example into a file called test.py and supplied my credentials from the API Console.  The example code at https://developers.google.com/drive/quickstart#install_the_google_client_library generates the error:

flow = OAuth2WebServerFlow(settings.CLIENT_ID, settings.CLIENT_SECRET, settings.OAUTH_SCOPE)

-->  authorize_url = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()

ValueError: The value of redirect_uri must not be None.

File "/local/src/meetup-rsvp/test.py", line 21, in <module>

  authorize_url = flow.step1_get_authorize_url()

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oauth2client/util.py", line 120, in positional_wrapper

  return wrapped(*args, **kwargs)

File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/oauth2client/client.py", line 1070, in step1_get_authorize_url

  raise ValueError('The value of redirect_uri must not be None.')

[Joe Gregorio]

Hey Bob,
Sorry you are having issues with that sample.

To get that working you can pass in the redirect uri either in
step1_get_authorize_url()
or, the preferred approach, pass it in via the constructor:

http://google-api-python-client.googlecode.com/hg/docs/epy/oauth2client.client.OAuth2WebServerFlow-class.html#__init__

Since this is a command-line app you will want to set the redirect_uri
to: 'urn:ietf:wg:oauth:2.0:oob'. I will file a bug internally to
get the sample in the docs updated.

The handling of OAuth 2.0 in that sample is intentionally kept short
to get the sample on a single page. If
you are building a command-line app for everyday use I'd suggest
looking at some of the samples in the
google-api-python-client library, for example the Google+ sample:

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/source/browse/samples/plus/plus.py

This keeps the client_id and client_secret in a separate file,
client_secrets.json. You can also
look at the keyring sample, which stores the final generated
credentials in your keyring software. Note
that you'll need the python keyring library installed to use it:

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-python-client/source/browse/#hg%2Fsamples%2Fkeyring

Thanks,
-joe

[Ali Afshar]

Thanks for raising this. I am just fixing the documentation and will let you know when it is updated.

Regards

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Ali Afshar | www.googplus.org/ali | Google Developer Relations

[Ali Afshar]

Documentation has been fixed.

[Bob Hancock]

Checked it out and it works.