Perl GMail: Search for Messages with Subject Containing a Word

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Return messages matching the specified query. See https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en for additional information about search operators. This example searches for all emails having the whole word "ADVChina" in the subject.

Documentation: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/7190?hl=en

CURL Command

curl -X GET https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages?q=subject:ADVChina \
    --header "Authorization: Bearer GMAIL_TOKEN"

Perl Example

use chilkat();

$rest = chilkat::CkRest->new();

#  URL: https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages?q=subject:ADVChina
$bTls = 1;
$port = 443;
$bAutoReconnect = 1;
$success = $rest->Connect("www.googleapis.com",$port,$bTls,$bAutoReconnect);
if ($success != 1) {
    print "ConnectFailReason: " . $rest->get_ConnectFailReason() . "\r\n";
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$rest->AddHeader("Authorization","Bearer GMAIL_TOKEN");

$sbResponseBody = chilkat::CkStringBuilder->new();
$success = $rest->FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/gmail/v1/users/me/messages?q=subject:ADVChina",$sbResponseBody);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$respStatusCode = $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode();
if ($respStatusCode >= 400) {
    print "Response Status Code = " . $respStatusCode . "\r\n";
    print "Response Header:" . "\r\n";
    print $rest->responseHeader() . "\r\n";
    print "Response Body:" . "\r\n";
    print $sbResponseBody->getAsString() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$jsonResponse = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$jsonResponse->LoadSb($sbResponseBody);

#  See the Online Tool for Generating JSON Parse Code

$resultSizeEstimate = $jsonResponse->IntOf("resultSizeEstimate");
$i = 0;
$count_i = $jsonResponse->SizeOfArray("messages");
while ($i < $count_i) {
    $jsonResponse->put_I($i);
    $id = $jsonResponse->stringOf("messages[i].id");
    $threadId = $jsonResponse->stringOf("messages[i].threadId");
    $i = $i + 1;
}

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "166e50fed0b9b0cb",
      "threadId": "166e50fed0b9b0cb"
    },
    {
      "id": "166c12e5fee013fe",
      "threadId": "166c12e5fee013fe"
    },
    {
      "id": "1669cc9a926bb8c1",
      "threadId": "1669cc9a926bb8c1"
    },
    {
      "id": "16678c485e7f0a0c",
      "threadId": "16678c485e7f0a0c"
    }
  ],
  "resultSizeEstimate": 4
}