Where Do I Put This? (Google Php Api Client Token Management)

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Howdy folks!

I’m using the googleapis extension to get an access_token from google, works great.

After authenticating with google for the first time in addition to the standard access_token they provide you with a "refresh_token" that is used to get a new access token after the current token expires (1 hour or when browser is closed, whichever comes first).

I’m storing the access_token in the session, and the refresh_token in the DB.

When a user logs in to my app in I’m using setstate to add the refresh token to Yii::app()->user->refresh_token so its always available.

I have various models and controller actions that need to have a valid google api client object to run.

The Google access_token has to be set to the client object each time those models or controller actions run.

I wrote this code to handle it (it works fine):




/**

* @var apiClient $client

*/

$client = Yii::app()->GoogleApis->client;

                

// Magic. Returns objects from the Analytics Service instead of associative arrays.

$client->setUseObjects(true);


try {

    if(isset(Yii::app()->session['auth_token'])) {

        //token set in session, set it to client object each time the app runs

        $client->setAccessToken(Yii::app()->session['auth_token']);


        if($client->isAccessTokenExpired()) {

            //token expired get new token with refresh token, set it to session

            $client->refreshToken(Yii::app()->user->refresh_token);

            Yii::app()->session['auth_token'] = $client->getAccessToken();

        } 

    } else {

        // token not set in session, get a new token with refresh token

        $client->refreshToken(Yii::app()->user->refresh_token);

        // set the new token in the session

        Yii::app()->session['auth_token'] = $client->getAccessToken();

    }

} catch(Exception $e) {

    throw new CHttpException(400,$e->getMessage());                   

}

So my question is where do I put it to make it reusable in a model or controller action that requires access to the Google API?

Thanks!

2

components seems like legitimate place.

3

I was thinking the same thing alirz23, outside of extending UserIdentity I don’t have much experience with components.

What would it extend?

4

create a new one

EDIT: My bad I did not get it first saw your message

extend the CApplicationComponent

5

Thanks, I’ll give it a try.

6

Working great alirz23, thanks!

Here is the code if anyone else is fiddling with this:

This is in the components DIR…




<?php


/**

* Maintains a valid authenticated client for the google api

*

* Notes: 

* Active "access_token" is stored in  Yii::app()->session['auth_token']

* 

* OFFLINE Google API access token must have already been granted

* and the "refresh_token" stored in Uesr model and set during login using

* setstate (Yii::app()->user->refresh_token)

*

* @return object $client

*/


class GoogleClient extends CApplicationComponent 

{

    public function run() {

        /**

        * @var apiClient $client

        */

        $client = Yii::app()->GoogleApis->client;


        // Magic. Returns objects from the Analytics Service instead of associative arrays.

        $client->setUseObjects(true);


        try {

            if(isset(Yii::app()->session['auth_token'])) {

                //token set in session, set it to client object each time the app runs

                $client->setAccessToken(Yii::app()->session['auth_token']);

            } else {

                // token not set in session, get a new token with refresh token

                $client->refreshToken(Yii::app()->user->refresh_token);

                // set the new token in the session

                Yii::app()->session['auth_token'] = $client->getAccessToken();

            }

            return $client;

         } catch(Exception $e) {

            throw new CHttpException(400,$e->getMessage());                   

        }

    }   

}


?>

And to set up the client object for google I just call whenever I need to hit up the API:




$client=new GoogleClient();

$client->run();
7

glad could help