Accessing Data API from Flex/Actionscript

[benz]

Hey,

it seems like currently the Data API is not usable from Flex/Flash
applications.
This is a pitty because one could do wonderful things with this ;-)
So I`m wondering if someone from google could answer me if it would be
possible for them to provide a crossdomain.xml policy file with
<allow-http-request-headers-from domain="*" headers="*" secure="true"/
>

is there any reason not to allow this?

Thanks
Benz

[Nick]

Hey There,

Accessing data directly from Flash/Flex would indeed be big :)

Unfortunately exposing a crossdomain.xml file to allow this is also a
big issue and currently not supported at this time. One option is to
create a server side proxy which could send data to ActionScript.

Also, if you're building an AIR app, crossdomain.xml isn't required.

-Nick

[Nick Green]

Could you elaborate on what you mean by sever side proxy? I thnk
you're referring to PHP, but server side programming is an area where
I'm very much lacking. I found a post at
http://www.zedia.net/2009/how-to-connect-to-google-analytics-data-api-in-flash/
describing how to work with PHP to get around the crossdomain issue.
But I continually get errors with the curl.php files that don't make
sense. Are there non-Curl methods of doing this?

Any help would be appreciated.

On Jul 22, 6:01 pm, Nick wrote:
> Hey There,
>

> Accessing data directly from Flash/Flexwould indeed be big :)

[Nick]

Hey Nick,

So the problem from getting GA API data directly from Flash today is
that the Google Analytics API doesn't support a cross domain file.

What you will have to do make your API requests from a server (as a
proxy) then send the responses back to your Flash program. You can do
this in PHP, Python, Java, etc...There are a couple of easy to use
libraries that can get you started here :
http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/gdata/gdataLibraries.html

-Nick

On Aug 3, 2:04 pm, Nick Green wrote:
> Could you elaborate on what you mean by sever side proxy?  I thnk
> you're referring to PHP, but server side programming is an area where

> I'm very much lacking.  I found a post athttp://www.zedia.net/2009/how-to-connect-to-google-analytics-data-api...

[MarkA]

Can you tell me how I set the auth token in AIR? When I apply the auth
key as is an error occurs:
The HTTP request header GoogleLogin Auth=[xyz] cannot be set via
ActionScript

When I shorten the token by encoding it base64 it works, but there the
google api cannot
work with it.

On 23 Jul., 01:01, Nick wrote:
> Hey There,
>

> Accessing data directly from Flash/Flexwould indeed be big :)

>
> Unfortunately exposing a crossdomain.xml file to allow this is also a
> big issue and currently not supported at this time. One option is to
> create a server side proxy which could send data to ActionScript.
>

> Also, if you're building anAIRapp, crossdomain.xml isn't required.

[Nick]

hmm...I'm not sure Nico @ Desktop reporting got this working.

I would start by verifying you are indeed using the right data for the
AuthToken it sounds like what you are using for XYZ is too long.

-Nick

[Nick]

Show your support for this feature here Benz:
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=1439&colspec=API%20ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Stars%20Summary

-Nick

On Jul 21, 1:49 pm, benz wrote:

[lecochien]

@Nick
you say "Also, if you're building an AIR app, crossdomain.xml isn't
required. "
Air embed webkit and there is some security consideration like this
one
"Dynamically created script elements, such as when created with
innerHTML or document.createElement() method are ignored." (http://
livedocs.adobe.com/flex/3/html/help.html?
content=ProgrammingHTMLAndJavaScript_03.html#1038897)

so as jsapi use this to load external script (ie : "d=o.createElement
("script");d.type="text/javascript";d.src=b") we can't use Air in
javascript mode.

It's my opinion.
Bye !

[Nick]

Hi correct,

If you are building an AIR app, you will need to make HTTP requests
directly to our API and will not be able to use the jsapi.
-Nick