[Interest] Question on qt-google-calendar from Qt-interest

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 9:52 PM, Igor Grivko <igrivko at ics.com> wrote:

>  Hi Harry,
>
> I am glad that you are confident with OAuth2.
> Authentication token goes from Google, as it is needed, and the
> application never knows the user's credentials (username and password).
>
> I do not see the reason of creating local server though.
>
> Anyway, thanks for your interest in our work!
>
> Best regards,
> Igor Grivko
>
>
> On 07/03/2012 11:31 PM, Harri Pasanen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I had no problems with Google docs, but I could not see how the ICS module
> obtained the authentication token.  It seemed to use some hack/feature of
> QWebView?
>
> I ended up using a variation of
> http://tftfy.blogspot.fr/2011/12/simple-oauth-20-in-qt.html instead,
> which seems to be pretty complete implementation of OAuth2 in Qt, although
> a bit more complex to use.    That does implement the callback interface
> (local server), which IMHO is required, and is missing from the ICS
> module.
>
> If you don't implement local server, the OAuth2 standard's hack was to
> user some browser title change... but the redirect URI for that did not
> work with ICS module.
>
>
> Harri
>
>
>
> On 07/03/2012 08:21 PM, Igor Grivko wrote:
>
> Hi Harry,
>
> Sorry for delay with reply, I was on vacation.
>
> Google uses standard OAuth2 way of authentication, you can have a look at:
>
> https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/OAuth2
>
> Then I probably need to say some words about how it is supposed to work.
> You need to create Google account (if you do not have one already) and
> visit Google Console page:
>
> https://code.google.com/apis/console
>
> There you can create your own "Google Application". All the requests that
> Google performs will be counted as yours. We do not provide the secrets to
> our Google application - as Google has courtesy limits for requests, and we
> do not want to be charged.
>
>
> Then you need to get "secrets" from your Google application - you need to
> go to tab *Api Access* in Google Console.
>
> There you can find Cliend ID, Client Secret, and Redirect URI. Redirect
> URI can be any working web server - you can use www.ics.com, for instance.
> Those three strings is the "fingerprints" of your Google application.
>
> Of course you need to turn on the access to Calendar API too.
>
> You can take a look at Wiki page of the our Calendar project:
>
>
> http://code.google.com/p/qt-google-calendar/wiki/HowToRegisterYourApplicationInGoogle
>
> Of course you do not need to create your own server.
>
> Hope it helps. Feel free to ask any questions!
>
> Best regards,
> Igor Grivko
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Harri Pasanen <harri at mpaja.com>
> Date: Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:39 PM
> Subject: Re: [Interest] ICS Announces Qt-Based Google APIs
> To: Justin Noel <justin at ics.com>
> Cc: interest at qt-project.org
>
>
>  I took a quick look at qt-google-calendar, but it's unclear to me how
> the authentication is supposed to work?
>
> Basically the code expects you to fill in response uri, but does not
> implement the server for it?
> What am I supposed to put in there (m_strRedirectURI)?    Reading google
> docs it should probably be http://localhost:port
> but then I should have a server listening there (or oauth2 should provide
> one).
>
> Confused,
>
> Harri
>
>
>
> On 06/20/2012 03:52 PM, Justin Noel wrote:
>
>  On 06/19/2012 03:48 PM, Till Oliver Knoll wrote:
>
> Am 19.06.2012 um 20:21 schrieb Lynn Gray <lgray at ics.com>:
>
>
>    - *Google Maps* – embed Google Maps images or Street View panoramas
>    without the need for JavaScript.
>
>   Just out of curiosity: is this a Google Map, shown via a WebKit view,
> controlled (internally) via the Google JavaScript API which is exposed as
> C++ methods?
>
>
>
> The main developer of these packages just left on a well deserved
> vacation. I wasn't directly involved with this project but I may be of
> assistance here. The map in particular is a WebView + javascript wrappers.
> Most of the other google apis are accessed directly without webview, etc.
> If anyone has more questions you can fire them my way.
>
> Thanks!
> --Justin
>
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A bit unrelated but...

Maybe you'd be interested in this project?
https://projects.kde.org/projects/kdereview/libkgoogle

Aleix
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