Ruby Google Drive: Get a File's MetaData

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Gets a file's metadata by ID. (In this example the file id = 1R_70heIyzIAu1_u0prXbYcaIiJRVkgBl)

Documentation: https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/files/get

require '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,true,true)
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

rest.AddQueryParam("includeTeamDriveItems","true")
rest.AddQueryParam("supportsTeamDrives","true")

sbJson = Chilkat::CkStringBuilder.new()
success = rest.FullRequestNoBodySb("GET","/drive/v3/files/1R_70heIyzIAu1_u0prXbYcaIiJRVkgBl",sbJson)
if (success != true)
    print rest.lastErrorText() + "\n";
    exit
end

if (rest.get_ResponseStatusCode() != 200)
    print "Received error response code: " + rest.get_ResponseStatusCode().to_s() + "\n";
    print "Response body:" + "\n";
    print sbJson.getAsString() + "\n";
    exit
end

json = Chilkat::CkJsonObject.new()
json.LoadSb(sbJson)

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

kind = json.stringOf("kind")
id = json.stringOf("id")
name = json.stringOf("name")
mimeType = json.stringOf("mimeType")
teamDriveId = json.stringOf("teamDriveId")

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

Sample JSON Response Body

{
  "kind": "drive#file",
  "id": "1R_70heIyzIAu1_u0prXbYcaIiJRVkgBl",
  "name": "penguins.jpg",
  "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
  "teamDriveId": "0AEd3EhGff2SaUk9PVA"
}