In Sheets REST API Documentation I didn't found links to gRPC API/Protobuf IDLs.
As I know, most of all REST APIs are just "sub-product" of Googles RPCs. So I assume that there is somewhere this documentation.
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I having been trying to find the difference between HTTP API and REST API resource types but not getting the clear difference. When and how should one use HTTP API ? A use case would be really appreciated.
A "REST API" (Representational state transfer) is an API that follows a certain architectural style, based on HTTP verbs (get, post, etc.). A REST API is always HTTP based.
An "HTTP API" simply only says that the HTTP protocol is used. A HTTP API doesn't necessarily have to be a REST API if it doesn't follow REST architectural styles.
You could say that a HTTP API could be any interface that you connect to over HTTP whereas REST API is only a subset of that group, that adheres to stricter rules.
In Exchange (not necessarily in Design Center), the REST APIs refer to APIs that are defined (using RAML or OAS) and implemented with MuleSoft tools (AnypointStudio) and published to Exchange, where as HTTP APIs refers to RESTful APIs that are created using other 3rd party tools whose HTTP/S URLs can be registered as assets within Exchange. HTTP APIs can also refer to a temporary placeholder created by a private Exchange user for future management of that endpoint (via API Manager).
Is there a way to integrate the api in c++?? I was looking for a way to read from an online google spreadsheet and I need it to be in C++, but the google available library seems to be outdated and is not recommended to use anymore, what can I do??
There is no official Google C++ API Client.
You have a couple of options:
Embedded another language, like Python, into C++ and use that for the API calls.
Call the API endpoints with your own HTTP methods.
Switch to a language with a supported API Client.
Hope this helps.
I am working with google cloud platform. Learning and trying out a few things like Bigquery and Google Cloud Storage.
I find it confusing that there are two official APIs for all those things: gcloud API and Google API Python Client. In google cloud's "getting started" tutorial, the recommended API is Google API (Python) Client and it seems that the documentation for gcloud api is not very detailed.
In short, to access Google Cloud Platform programmatically,
which api library is better?
Where can I find nice documentation for that?
My answer
I would recommend gcloud API, this choice also applies to other languages: nodejs, ruby.... And then
Explanations
It is confusing, that Google have these two APIs have overlapping functionalities. And it is more confusing that they use Google API Client in their tutorial, while gcloud seems to be a more Google Cloud SDK specific package.
Here is what I found out: on the page of the gcloud API page, there is this FAQ section saying:
The Google APIs Python Client is a client library for using the broad set of Google APIs. gcloud-python is built specifically for the Google Cloud Platform and is the recommended way to integrate Google Cloud APIs into your Python applications. If your application requires both Google Cloud Platform and other Google APIs, the 2 libraries may be used by your application.
Addtionally, the gcloud api is part of the Google Cloud SDK. So it is standard.
Both the gcloud command-line tool and gcloud-python package are a part of the Google Cloud SDK: a collection of tools and libraries that enable you to easily create and manage resources on the Google Cloud Platform. The gcloud command-line tool can be used to manage both your development workflow and your Google Cloud Platform resources while the gcloud-python package is the Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Based on my experience of using the python and nodejs api, the gcloud api is much more easier to use than the google api client. Here is another question for your reference:
When accessing Bigquery using Python API, what is the difference of using google client API and gcloud
So obviously, for a project working around Google Cloud Platform, using the gcloud API is an better choice.
Documentation
What about the documentation?
The documentation seems not very helpful(especially for rookie programmer like me) if you look at a page like this:
https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/#/docs/master/gcloud/storage/blob/blob
I found two ways to get more detailed instructions: look for the doc for stable version or go to the github page. For instance:
https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/stable/storage-blobs.html
https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-python
This is the result of the little research I did on it. I am still curious why Google mention gcloud library so little in its tutorials. Anyway, I hope this will help people to get an idea of which library to use, and save some time researching on it.
Does google code provide an API for accessing information about a project like github does on http://developer.github.com/v3/? I haven't found any.
It provides API for its tracker, but other API features present in GitHub might not yet be present.
You can use Google API discovery service (based on its lib) to make sure of that, though.
Does anyone know how to connect to Google Talk using GData API. IS there a better api for iphone development for connection to Google Talk? I have been looking thru the examples I downloaded for the API but I don't see any support.
This is what I have been looking at.
Google Talk uses XMPP, and it has no GData API.
I suggest you look at: http://code.google.com/apis/talk/talk_developers_home.html