Perl GMail: Lists the messages in the user's mailbox.

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Lists the messages in the user's mailbox.

Documentation: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/v1/reference/users/messages/list

use chilkat();

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

#   Provide a previously obtained OAuth2 access token.
$oauth2 = chilkat::CkOAuth2->new();
$oauth2->put_AccessToken("OAUTH2_ACCESS_TOKEN");
$rest->SetAuthOAuth2($oauth2);

$success = $rest->Connect("www.googleapis.com",443,1,1);
if ($success != 1) {
    print $rest->lastErrorText() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

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

if ($rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200) {
    print "Received error response code: " . $rest->get_ResponseStatusCode() . "\r\n";
    print "Response body:" . "\r\n";
    print $sbJson->getAsString() . "\r\n";
    exit;
}

$json = chilkat::CkJsonObject->new();
$json->LoadSb($sbJson);

#  The following code parses the JSON response.
#  A sample JSON response is shown below the sample code.

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

print "Example Completed." . "\r\n";

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "15fc237e79da4174",
      "threadId": "15fc237e79da4174"
    },
    {
      "id": "15fc23688c553739",
      "threadId": "15fc23688c553739"
    },
    {
      "id": "15fbd37d3a8f9950",
      "threadId": "15fbd37d3a8f9950"
    },
    {
      "id": "15fb5e49b822ac1d",
      "threadId": "15fb5e49b822ac1d"
    },
    {
      "id": "15fb5e49b7a0739b",
      "threadId": "15fb5e49b7a0739b"
    }
  ],
  "resultSizeEstimate": 5
}