how can I get share link after sharing a file with authorization keys

ling Zou

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Mar 28, 2012, 4:40:44 AM 3/28/12

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I shared a file by withKey method, and I need the share link to display the file in other place,

but there's no share link information in the HttpResponseMessage.

how could I get it?

Claudio Cherubino

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Mar 28, 2012, 12:33:04 PM 3/28/12

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Hi Ling,

The share link must be constructed by concatenating the alternate link + '?authkey=' + key.

Please also check these threads:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-documents-list-api/h2Iy0yK057Y/discussion

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/google-documents-list-api/xeoI59v_lUM/discussion

Claudio

Claudio Cherubino

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Mar 28, 2012, 12:41:20 PM 3/28/12

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Hi Ling,

Looks like I was wrong, we don't authkey anymore, instead you should be able to just use the alternate link.

Claudio

ling Zou

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Mar 28, 2012, 10:00:51 PM 3/28/12

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Hi Claudio:

thank you. Do you mean the share link is nothing to do with the ACL key? then anyone has the alternate link could open the document?

在 2012年3月29日星期四UTC+8上午12时41分20秒，Claudio Cherubino写道：

Ali Afshar

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Mar 29, 2012, 1:22:05 PM 3/29/12

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Hi Ling,

Yes, that is exactly right, anyone with the link can access the role for that ACL, the key itself is not used. If you remove that ACL, and add it again, the link would be new, so it would be like a revokable token.

Regards

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Fernando Benavides

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Apr 3, 2012, 12:33:01 PM 4/3/12

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Hi Ali

Could you please give some examples about this "alternative link" , its because , in all the forums ( https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/google-documents-list-api/xeoI59v_lUM/discussion ) people talk about the ACL key to achive "anyone with the link can view the document", but i am having a hard time to achive that.

Thanks.

2012/3/29 Ali Afshar < afs...@google.com >

Fernando Benavides

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Apr 3, 2012, 3:04:45 PM 4/3/12

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This does not exist in c# , how i can it make the same in c#

AclEntry aclEntry = new AclEntry();
aclEntry.setScope(scope);
AclWithKey withKey = new AclWithKey("gspot", role);
aclEntry.setWithKey(withKey);
service.insert(aclFeedUrl, aclEntry);

2012/4/3 Fernando Benavides < nan...@gmail.com >

Claudio Cherubino

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Apr 3, 2012, 5:45:14 PM 4/3/12

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Hi Fernando,

The .NET GData client library doesn't support AclWithKey.

Claudio

Fernando Benavides

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Apr 3, 2012, 6:42:04 PM 4/3/12

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Hi Claudio , so how can i accomplish "share to anyone with the link" with .net Gdata client library?

this link documento.AtomEntry.Links[0], in which REL value is "alternative" , do not work for me.

2012/4/3 Claudio Cherubino < ccher...@google.com >

Claudio Cherubino

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Apr 3, 2012, 7:20:20 PM 4/3/12

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Hi Fernando,

In order to share to anyone with the link, you need to POST to the ACL feed:

POST /feeds/default/private/full/document:1234/acl

<entry>

<gAcl:withKey key="doesn't matter">

<gAcl:role value='reader'/>

</gAcl:withKey>

<gAcl:scope type='default'/>

</entry>

However, the .NET library doesn't support the gAcl:withKey element, so you won't be able to do so, unless you define the element yourself.

Note that it doesn't matter what the value of the key attribute is, it just needs to be something.

Claudio

Fernando Benavides

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Apr 4, 2012, 2:12:13 AM 4/4/12

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hello Claudio , i being trying to define the element myself , without success , i need a light , i have try extended property , xmlnode , but any of this work

       this is in java , in c# setBlob() does not exist , what can i use?

XmlBlob blob = new XmlBlob();
    // the suggested key is ignored - google generates their own which we then retrieve
    blob.setBlob("<gAcl:withKey key='whatever'><gAcl:role value='" + AclRole.WRITER.getValue() + "' /></gAcl:withKey>");
    blob.addNamespace(new XmlNamespace("", " http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom ")

);
blob.addNamespace(new XmlNamespace("gAcl", " http://schemas.google.com/acl/2007 "));

Thanks.

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