Google Calendar Event Insert HTTP message format? - google-api

Question

Google provides the HTTP message format for all the Oauth messages but nothing when it comes to the Calendar's API.
I suspect they want you to use one of their libraries -- but I don't use any of the languages associated with their libraries.
I'm using C++ and forming my own HTTP headers and message content.
Can anyone provide a standard HTTP format for Calendar-event-insert?
I know it must be in JSON construction.
The data I want to send is:
Calendar ID will be "primary"
Summary
Description
Start time
End Time
Based on oauth messages - I'm assuming the message may also have to contain:
ClientID
AccessToken
Scope
redirect_uri
I am looking for correct "Key" strings(case sensitive) and format.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Answer 1

You can do this all your self. The doucmentation is all there
Calendar event.insert
If all you want to do is see the HTTP request that is made by the api you can use If you use the event.Insert try me You can see the request it builds and test that its working
POST https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars/primary/events HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer [YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN]
Accept: application/json
Content-Type: application/json
{
"end": {
"date": "2020-01-01"
},
"start": {
"date": "2020-01-01"
},
"description": "test",
"summary": "test"
}
With a post body of events.resource
oauth
If you have your own C++ oauth library you can probably use that to get an access token. Once you have the access token you simply need to add a Authorization header to the post request above with a bearer token of the access token.
Sorry i cant help much with the code for c++ but i made my own library for .net 3.5 because it was not supported by googles .net client library, so i can tell you that its doable you just have to do it all yourself.
Google c++ library
There is a c++ library its just deprecated but that doesn't mean you cant dig around in their code for a bit of help in doing this Google apis cpp client