Call gapi.auth.authorize for every request?

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James Colestock

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Dec 14, 2015, 1:12:42 PM12/14/15

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Good day everybody. I was hoping people with a little more experience could give me some guidance.

I have a small, single-page application that uses a Google Apps Script Execution API project I created. It has two scopes that require authentication via OAuth. I am using the technique modeled in the example code in which

gapi.auth.authorize

is called and its callback function uses

gapi.client.request

to manipulate and return the API's data to the front-end.

Everything works, however, I can only get my application to work if I call

gapi.auth.authorize

before every API request. Each call appends another IFRAME to the web page. I don't know whether this is the intended behavior or I am just ignorant to a better way of doing this.

If anyone could elaborate on the best/recommended way to make multiple/subsequest API requests, I would be quite appreciative!

Thank you!

Renaud Tarnec

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Dec 15, 2015, 3:25:30 PM12/15/15

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Hello,

If I understand well you are using the Google JavaScript client library. Have a look at this example which shows how to authenticate and load an Api at the same time (Section "Adding authentication support with OAuth 2.0").

https://cloud.google.com/appengine/docs/java/endpoints/consume_js

This works well with any number of apis, i.e. the apisToLoad variable can be set to any value greater than 2.