gar_auth_configure function

Edit and view auth configuration

These functions give more control over and visibility into the auth configuration than [gar_auth()] does. gar_auth_configure() lets the user specify their own: * OAuth client, which is used when obtaining a user token. * API key. If googleAuthR is de-authorized via [gar_deauth()], all requests are sent with an API key in lieu of a token.

See the vignette("get-api-credentials", package = "gargle") for more. If the user does not configure these settings, internal defaults are used.

gar_oauth_client() and gar_api_key() retrieve the currently configured OAuth client and API key, respectively.

gar_auth_configure(app, path, api_key)

gar_api_key()

gar_oauth_app()

Arguments

• app: A Google OAuth client, presumably constructed via gargle_oauth_client_from_json . Note, however, that it is preferred to specify the client with JSON, using the path argument.
• path: JSON downloaded from Google Cloud Console, containing a client id and secret, in one of the forms supported for the txt argument of fromJSON (typically, a file path or JSON string).
• api_key: API key.

Returns

• gar_auth_configure(): An object of R6 class [gargle::AuthState], invisibly. * gar_oauth_client(): the current user-configured OAuth client. * gar_api_key(): the current user-configured API key.

Examples

# see and store the current user-configured OAuth app (probaby `NULL`)
(original_app <- gar_oauth_app())

# see and store the current user-configured API key (probaby `NULL`)
(original_api_key <- gar_api_key())

if (require(httr)) {
  # bring your own app via client id (aka key) and secret
  google_app <- httr::oauth_app(
    "my-awesome-google-api-wrapping-package",
    key = "123456789.apps.googleusercontent.com",
    secret = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
  )
  google_key <- "the-key-I-got-for-a-google-API"
  gar_auth_configure(app = google_app, api_key = google_key)

  # confirm the changes
  gar_oauth_app()
  gar_api_key()
}

## Not run:

## bring your own app via JSON downloaded from Google Developers Console
gar_auth_configure(
  path = "/path/to/the/JSON/you/downloaded/from/google/dev/console.json"
)
## End(Not run)

# restore original auth config
gar_auth_configure(app = original_app, api_key = original_api_key)

See Also

Other auth functions: gar_deauth()