The “Java Quickstart” would have been a good starting point, but it uses Gradle, and I wanted to stick with Maven, which the first project we cloned (“drive-cmdline-sample”) uses. Luckily, this tutorial (Java Quickstart) from Google provides another sample client to truly quickstart us.
Out of the box, the sample “drive-cmdline-sample” project had numerous build errors, particularly in the DriveSample.java file (e.g., “The method setTitle(String) is undefined for the type File”). I created a new directory on my Mac and copied just the “drive-cmdline-sample” project into that new directory.Īfter opening Eclipse, we select that new directory as the workspace, and then import the “drive-cmdline-sample” as an “Existing Maven Project.” 1.3 Initial Issues Let’s clone it: git clone 1.2 Import command line exampleĪfter the clone is complete, we see that there are numerous projects that we just checked out, but we really only care about the “drive-cmdline-sample” project. When you first enter “google drive java sdk” into the search engine (Google, of course), the first hit is the main documentation site, which provides a link to their sample code on GitHub … a reasonable place to start. The entire source code to accompany this article is available here on GitHub. Then, we will demonstrate code that searches for a file by name, and then uses a recursive function to discover the “full path” of the file that was found in the search-by-name results. In part 2, we will look at how the “files and folders” concept in Google Drive is a bit different that what you might be used to on a Mac or Windows machine. We will run the basic “sanity check” that came with the sample code, and then look at a few other useful Google Drive queries.We’ll highlight the various online articles/resources that I used to get started with using basic SDK functionality.
We will start from square one in connecting to Google Drive using a basic command line Java project.In this part 1 of a two part Google Drive Java SDK mini-series, we will cover these topics: You can create files and folders in the cloud, and also sync those files and folders to your local machine (or iOS or Android device). Google Drive is a wonderful tool, as anyone who has used it knows.
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