Update Google Drive Document

balconsult · March 1, 2018

Does anyone know if there is a way or have an example of running a report design that then updates a file stored in Google Drive?

David Sciuto · March 29, 2018

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Chad Montgomery · March 29, 2018

What file is being updated? Just a file on the local system where the report is executing? Or are you trying to get the output of the report to publish to google drive?

There's no built in functionality for working with google drive, all of it would need to be implemented via custom code either while the report is executing, or via code that runs in the browser.

This custom code would need to utilize Google Drive API for programmatically uploading files to Drive, which I'm unfamiliar with.

For pushing the report output to google drive, you'd need to do something similar to above, but also would need to obtain the report output, which I believe would be a bit more difficult.

balconsult · March 30, 2018

Would like to place a recently executed scheduled report as a Google Drive document. I don't want to reinvent the wheel and was hoping that someone has tried to do this either by using the Google Drive API through either something like Python or BIRT Javascript or by utilizing some other means (JDBC, FTP, etc.).

Chad Montgomery · March 30, 2018

You mentioned scheduling it, so I assume you're on an iHub? I work on designs, so I was thinking of design solutions. Thinking more about it now, your best bet may be to externalize your code.

What I mean by that, is to probably make a custom application the downloads the outputs from finished jobs (using IDAPI), and uploads it to google drive. This would be outside the report design, and I feel would be the easiest to maintain.

Regarding the IDAPI aspect, you'd essentially just query for completed jobs on an interval, then when one is completed, you'd do a download operation of that file.

From there you'd be using the Google APIs to upload a file to the Drive. That, I don't really know about, but you could base it off a sample online somewhere for whichever language you'd be using.

It's feasible you could get this same functionality via script inside an rptdesign, but it would a bit more of a hassle to maintain.

jneneman · April 2, 2018

The below sample is how you might download a pdf from the iHub to a local location.

        com.actuate.schemas.ActuateSoapBindingStub proxy;
        ActuateAPIEx actuateAPI;
        actuateAPI = new ActuateAPILocatorEx();
        actuateAPI.setTargetVolume("Default Volume");
        //Sample
        proxy = (ActuateSoapBindingStub) actuateAPI.getActuateSoapPort(new java.net.URL("http://samplehost:8000"));
        proxy.setTimeout(0);
        com.actuate.schemas.Login request = new com.actuate.schemas.Login();
        request.setUser("Administrator");
        request.setPassword("");
        com.actuate.schemas.LoginResponse response = proxy.login(request);
        String authID = response.getAuthId();
        actuateAPI.setAuthId(authID);


        com.actuate.schemas.DownloadFile df = new com.actuate.schemas.DownloadFile(); 
        com.actuate.schemas.SelectFiles sf = new com.actuate.schemas.SelectFiles(); 
        com.actuate.schemas.SelectFilesResponse sfr = null; 
        com.actuate.schemas.DownloadFileResponse dfr = null;
        com.actuate.schemas.Attachment att = null; 
        com.actuate.schemas.File[] fileArray = null;
        byte[] content = null; //Sample
        df.setDownloadEmbedded(Boolean.TRUE); 

        String fileString="/Home/Administrator/NullReportPDF.pdf";
        System.out.println(fileString);

        String downloadFilePath = "C:/Users/jneneman/NullReportPDF.pdf";
        System.out.println(downloadFilePath);
        //Sample

        df.setFileName(fileString);
        dfr = proxy.downloadFile(df);

        att = dfr.getContent();
        content = att.getContentData();
        FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(downloadFilePath);

        fos.write(content);
        fos.close(); //Sample

From there you can either setup a local location as your drive location: https://www.howtogeek.com/228989/how-to-use-the-desktop-google-drive-app/

Alternatively you could use the Google Drive REST API v3, I was skimming through a few things and the samples look like they are spot on from:
Setting up the connection:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/quickstart/java

Uploading a File, like an image:
https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/web/manage-uploads

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