将 Ruby 与 Google Data API 配合使用

Jochen Hartmann,Google 数据 API 团队
2008 年 4 月

简介

Ruby 是一种动态脚本语言,近年来由于流行的 Rails 网络开发框架而受到大量关注。本文介绍如何使用 Ruby 与 Google Data API 服务进行交互。我们不会重点关注 Rails,而是更有兴趣介绍基本 HTTP 命令和 Feed 结构。此处给出的所有示例都可以从命令行使用 irb(Ruby 的交互式 shell)跟随。

您可能还记得,在 c网址 文章中提到,Google 数据 API 使用 Atom 发布协议表示、创建和更新网络资源。此协议的优势在于,它们会使用标准 HTTP 动词来编排请求,从而以标准 HTTP 状态代码来解答请求。

在本文中使用的动词是 GET,用于检索内容;POST 用于上传新内容,PUT 用于更新现有内容。您使用 Google 数据 API 时可能遇到的一些标准代码是 200 表示成功检索 Feed 或条目,201 表示资源已成功创建或更新。如果出现错误(例如发送格式错误的请求),系统会发送 400 代码(表示“请求无效”)。我们会在回复正文中提供更详细的消息,说明问题的具体原因。

Ruby 提供了一个不错的调试选项,作为“Net”模块的一部分。不过,为了尽量缩短这类代码示例,我没有在这里启用它。

获取和安装 Ruby

如果使用的是 Linux,您可以使用大多数软件包管理系统安装 Ruby。如需获取其他操作系统并获取完整源代码,请访问 http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/Irb:默认情况下,我们将安装要用于这些示例的交互式 shell。若要遵循此处列出的代码示例,您还需要安装 XmlSimple,这是一个可将 XML 解析为 Ruby 数据结构的小型库。要获取/安装 XmlSimple,请访问 http://xml-simple.rubyforge.org/

在计算机上运行 Ruby 的副本后,您可以使用 Net:HTTP 软件包向 Google 的数据服务发出基本请求。以下代码段展示了如何从 Ruby 的交互式 shell 执行必要的导入。我们要做的就是添加“net/http”包,解析 YouTube 中评分最高的视频 Feed 的网址,然后执行 HTTP GET 请求。

irb(main):001:0> require 'net/http'
=> true
irb(main):002:0> youtube_top_rated_videos_feed_uri = \
'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated'
=> "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated"
irb(main):003:0> uri = \
URI.parse(youtube_top_rated_videos_feed_uri)
=> #<URI::HTTP:0xfbf826e4 URL:http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated>

irb(main):004:0> uri.host
=> "gdata.youtube.com"
irb(main):005:0> Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |http|
irb(main):006:1* puts http.get(uri.path)
irb(main):007:1> end
#<Net::HTTPOK:0xf7ef22cc>

该请求应该在命令行中回显了大量 XML。您可能已经注意到,所有商品都包含在 <feed> 元素中,称为 <entry> 元素。我们先不要担心 XML 格式,我只是想说明如何使用 HTTP 发出基本的 Google Data API 请求。我们现在要切换 API 并关注电子表格,因为我们可以发送和检索的信息更加“适合命令行”。

身份验证 | 使用 Google 电子表格 API

我们先从检索条目元素的 Feed 开始。但这一次,我们需要使用我们自己的电子表格。为此,我们必须先通过 Google 帐号服务进行身份验证。

您可能还记得关于 GData 身份验证的文档,其中有两种通过 Google 服务进行身份验证的方法。AuthSub 适用于基于网络的应用,简而言之,就是需要交换令牌。AuthSub 的真正优势在于,您的应用无需存储用户凭据。StreetView 适用于“已安装的”应用。在 EGL 进程中,用户名和密码将通过 https 与标识您所使用的服务的字符串一起发送到 Google 的服务。Google 电子表格 API 服务由字符串来标识。

切换回交互式 Shell,让我们向 Google 进行身份验证。请注意,我们使用 https 发送身份验证请求和凭据:

irb(main):008:0> require 'net/https'
=> true
irb(main):009:0> http = Net::HTTP.new('www.google.com', 443)
=> #<Net::HTTP www.google.com:443 open=false>
irb(main):010:0> http.use_ssl = true
=> true
irb(main):011:0> path = '/accounts/ClientLogin'
=> "/accounts/ClientLogin"

# Now we are passing in our actual authentication data. 
# Please visit OAuth For Installed Apps for more information 
# about the accountType parameter
irb(main):014:0> data = \
irb(main):015:0* 'accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=your email' \
irb(main):016:0* '&Passwd=your password' \
irb(main):017:0* '&service=wise'

=> accountType=HOSTED_OR_GOOGLE&Email=your email&Passwd=your password&service=wise"

# Set up a hash for the headers
irb(main):018:0> headers = \
irb(main):019:0* { 'Content-Type' => 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded'}
=> {"Content-Type"=>"application/x-www-form-urlencoded"}

# Post the request and print out the response to retrieve our authentication token
irb(main):020:0> resp, data = http.post(path, data, headers)
warning: peer certificate won't be verified in this SSL session
=> [#<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>, "SID=DQAAAIIAAADgV7j4F-QVQjnxdDRjpslHKC3M ... [ snipping out the rest of the authentication strings ]

# Strip out our actual token (Auth) and store it
irb(main):021:0> cl_string = data[/Auth=(.*)/, 1]
=> "DQAAAIUAAADzL... [ snip ]

# Build our headers hash and add the authorization token
irb(main):022:0> headers["Authorization"] = "GoogleLogin auth=#{cl_string}"
=> "GoogleLogin auth=DQAAAIUAAADzL... [ snip ]

好。现在我们已经通过了身份验证,接下来,我们尝试通过请求检索自己的电子表格来

http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full

由于这是一个经过身份验证的请求,因此我们还想传入标头。实际上,由于我们要针对各种 Feed 进行多次请求,因此最好将此功能封装在一个简单函数中,我们称之为 get_feed

# Store the URI to the feed since we may want to use it again
irb(main):023:0> spreadsheets_uri = \
irb(main):024:0* 'http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full'

# Create a simple method to obtain a feed
irb(main):025:0> def get_feed(uri, headers=nil)
irb(main):026:1> uri = URI.parse(uri)
irb(main):027:1> Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port) do |http|
irb(main):028:2* return http.get(uri.path, headers)
irb(main):029:2> end
irb(main):030:1> end
=> nil

# Lets make a request and store the response in 'my_spreadsheets'
irb(main):031:0> my_spreadsheets = get_feed(spreadsheets_uri, headers)
=> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>

irb(main):032:0> my_spreadsheets
=> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>

# Examine our XML (showing only an excerpt here...)
irb(main):033:0> my_spreadsheets.body
=> "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/'>
<id>http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full</id><updated>2008-03-20T20:49:39.211Z</updated>
<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006' term='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#spreadsheet'/>
<title type='text'>Available Spreadsheets - test.api.jhartmann@gmail.com</title><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://docs.google.com'/>
<link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full?tfe='/>
<openSearch:totalResults>6</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><entry>
<id>http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full/o04927555739056712307.4365563854844943790</id><updated>2008-03-19T20:44:41.055Z</updated><category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006' term='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#spreadsheet'/><title type='text'>test02</title><content type='text'>test02</content><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#worksheetsfeed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/o04927555739056712307.4365563854844943790/private/full'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=o04927555739056712307.4365563854844943790'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full/o04927555739056712307.4365563854844943790'/><author><name>test.api.jhartmann</name><email>test.api.jhartmann@gmail.com</email></author></entry><entry> ...

我们再次看到很多我未在上文中强调的 XML,因为您无需通过命令行进行解密。为了使内容更方便用户使用,我们可以使用 XmlSimple 将其解析为数据结构:

# Perform imports
irb(main):034:0> require 'rubygems'
=> true
irb(main):035:0> require 'xmlsimple'
=> true
irb(main):036:0> doc = \
irb(main):037:0* XmlSimple.xml_in(my_spreadsheets.body, 'KeyAttr' => 'name')

# Import the 'pp' module for 'pretty printing'
irb(main):038:0> require 'pp'
=> true

# 'Pretty-print' our XML document
irb(main):039:0> pp doc
{"totalResults"=>["6"],
 "category"=>
  [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#spreadsheet",
    "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
 "title"=>
  [{"type"=>"text",
    "content"=>"Available Spreadsheets - Test-account"}],
 "startIndex"=>["1"],
 "id"=>["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full"],
 "entry"=>
  [{"category"=>
     [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#spreadsheet",
       "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
    "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"blank"}],
    "author"=>
     [{"name"=>["Test-account"],
       "email"=>["my email"]}],
    "id"=>
     ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738"],
    "content"=>{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"blank"},
    "link"=>
    [ snipping out the rest of the XML ]

获取工作表

从上面的输出可以看出,我的 Feed 包含 6 个电子表格。为使本文简明扼要,我删除了上述其余 XML 输出内容(以及大部分其他商品详情)。如需更深入地了解此电子表格,我们还需要额外执行几个步骤:

  1. 获取电子表格密钥
  2. 使用电子表格密钥获取工作表 Feed
  3. 获取要使用的工作表的 ID
  4. 请求 cellFeed 或 listFeed 以访问工作表的实际内容

这可能听起来非常复杂,但我会告诉您,如果我们编写一些简单的方法,就会很容易。cellFeed 和 listFeed 是工作表实际单元格内容的两种不同表示法。listFeed 代表一整行信息,建议用于发布新数据。cellFeed 代表各个单元格,可用于单个单元格更新或对多个单个单元格进行批量更新(均使用 PUT)。如需了解详情,请参阅 Google 电子表格 API 文档

首先,我们需要提取电子表格密钥(在上面的 XML 输出中突出显示),然后获取工作表 Feed:

# Extract the spreadsheet key from our datastructure
irb(main):040:0> spreadsheet_key = \ 
irb(main):041:0* doc["entry"][0]["id"][0][/full\/(.*)/, 1]
=> "o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738"

# Using our get_feed method, let's obtain the worksheet feed
irb(main):042:0> worksheet_feed_uri = \ 
irb(main):043:0* "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/#{spreadsheet_key}/private/full"
=> "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/private/full"

irb(main):044:0> worksheet_response = get_feed(worksheet_feed_uri, headers)
=> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>

# Parse the XML into a datastructure
irb(main):045:0> worksheet_data = \ 
irb(main):046:0* XmlSimple.xml_in(worksheet_response.body, 'KeyAttr' => 'name')
=> {"totalResults"=>["1"], "category"=>[{"term ... [ snip ]

# And pretty-print it
irb(main):047:0> pp worksheet_data
{"totalResults"=>["1"],
 "category"=>
  [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#worksheet",
    "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
 "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"blank"}],
 "author"=>
  [{"name"=>["test.api.jhartmann"],
    "email"=>["test.api.jhartmann@gmail.com"]}],
 "startIndex"=>["1"],
 "id"=>
  ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/private/full"],
 "entry"=>
  [{"category"=>
     [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#worksheet",
       "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
    "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"Sheet 1"}],
    "rowCount"=>["100"],
    "colCount"=>["20"],
    "id"=>
     ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/worksheets/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/private/full/od6"],
    "content"=>{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"Sheet 1"},
    "link"=>
     [{"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full",
       "rel"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#listfeed",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"},
      {"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full",
       "rel"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#cellsfeed",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"},
    [ snip: cutting off the rest of the XML ]

如您所见,我们现在可以找到用于访问 listFeed 和 cellFeed 的链接 (highlighted above)。在深入了解 listFeed 之前,我们先快速解释一下示例电子表格中当前存在哪些数据,以便您了解我们要查找的内容:

我们的电子表格非常简单,如下所示:

language网站
Javahttp://java.com
PHPhttp://php.net

这些数据在 listFeed 中如下所示:

irb(main):048:0> listfeed_uri = \
irb(main):049:0* worksheet_data["entry"][0]["link"][0]["href"]
=> "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full"

irb(main):050:0> response = get_feed(listfeed_uri, headers)
=> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>
irb(main):051:0> listfeed_doc = \ 
irb(main):052:0* XmlSimple.xml_in(response.body, 'KeyAttr' => 'name')
=> {"totalResults"=>["2"], "category"=>[{"term" ... [ snip ]

# Again we parse the XML and then pretty print it
irb(main):053:0> pp listfeed_doc
{"totalResults"=>["2"],
 "category"=>
  [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#list",
    "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
 "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"Programming language links"}],
 "author"=>
  [{"name"=>["test.api.jhartmann"],
    "email"=>["test.api.jhartmann@gmail.com"]}],
 "startIndex"=>["1"],
 "id"=>
  ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full"],
 "entry"=>
  [{"category"=>
     [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#list",
       "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
    "language"=>["java"],
    "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"ruby"}],
    "website"=>["http://java.com"],
    "id"=>
     ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cn6ca"],
    "content"=>
     {"type"=>"text", "content"=>"website: http://java.com"},
    "link"=>
     [{"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cn6ca",
       "rel"=>"self",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"},
      {"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cn6ca/1j81anl6096",
       "rel"=>"edit",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"}],
    "updated"=>["2008-03-20T22:19:51.739Z"]},
   {"category"=>
     [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#list",
       "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
    "language"=>["php"],
    "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"php"}],
    "website"=>["http://php.net"],
    "id"=>
     ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cokwr"],
    "content"=>{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"website: http://php.net"},
    [ snip ]

如您所见,listFeed 通过为每行创建一个条目返回工作表的内容。它会假定电子表格的第一行包含您的单元格标题,然后根据该行中的数据动态生成 XML 标题。查看实际的 XML 有助于进一步解释这一点:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><feed [ snip namespaces ]>
<id>http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full</id>
<updated>2008-03-20T22:19:51.739Z</updated>
<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006' term='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#list'/>

<title type='text'>Programming language links</title>
[ snip: cutting out links and author information ]
<entry>
    <id>http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cn6ca</id>
    [ snip: updated and category ]
    <title type='text'>java</title>
    <content type='text'>website: http://java.com</content>
    <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cn6ca'/>
    <link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cn6ca/1j81anl6096'/>
    <gsx:language>java</gsx:language>
    <gsx:website>http://java.com</gsx:website>
</entry>
<entry>
    <id>http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cokwr</id>
    [ snip: updated and category ]
    <title type='text'>php</title>
    <content type='text'>website: http://php.net</content>
    <link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cokwr'/>
    <link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/cokwr/41677fi0nc'/>
    <gsx:language>php</gsx:language>
    <gsx:website>http://php.net</gsx:website>
</entry>
</feed>

我们来快速了解一下单元格 Feed 中相同信息的表示方式,以便快速比较:

# Extract the cellfeed link
irb(main):054:0> cellfeed_uri = \
irb(main):055:0* worksheet_data["entry"][0]["link"][1]["href"]
=> "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full"
irb(main):056:0> response = \ 
irb(main):057:0* get_feed(cellfeed_uri, headers)
=> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>

# Parse into datastructure and print
irb(main):058:0> cellfeed_doc = \ 
irb(main):059:0* XmlSimple.xml_in(response.body, 'KeyAttr' => 'name')
=> {"totalResults"=>["6"], [ snip ]

irb(main):060:0> pp cellfeed_doc
{"totalResults"=>["6"],
 "category"=>
  [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#cell",
    "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
 "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"Programming language links"}],
 "rowCount"=>["101"],
 "colCount"=>["20"],
 "author"=>
  [{"name"=>["test.api.jhartmann"],
    "email"=>["test.api.jhartmann@gmail.com"]}],
 "startIndex"=>["1"],
 "id"=>
  ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full"],
 "entry"=>
  [{"category"=>
     [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#cell",
       "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
    "cell"=>
     [{"col"=>"1",
       "row"=>"1",
       "content"=>"language",
       "inputValue"=>"language"}],
    "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"A1"}],
    "id"=>
     ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R1C1"],
    "content"=>{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"language"},
    "link"=>
     [{"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R1C1",
       "rel"=>"self",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"},
      {"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R1C1/8srvbs",
       "rel"=>"edit",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"}],
    "updated"=>["2008-03-20T22:19:51.739Z"]},
    [ snip ]

如您所见,系统返回了 6 个条目,每个单元格对应一个条目。除了 A1 单元格的值(其中包含“language”一词)之外,我已经删除了所有其他输出。另请注意上面显示的 edit 链接。此链接末尾包含版本字符串 (8srvbs)。正如本文末尾所述,更新字符串数据时,版本字符串非常重要。这样可确保更新不会被覆盖。每当发出 PUT 请求以更新单元格数据时,都必须在请求中包含单元格的最新版本字符串。每次更新后,系统都会返回一个新版本字符串。

将内容发布到 listFeed

我们发布内容首先需要的是 listFeed 的 POST 链接。系统会在请求列表 Feed 时返回此链接。其中将包含网址 http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#post 作为 rel 属性的值。您需要解析此 link 元素并提取其 href 属性。首先,我们将创建一种小方法,以便更轻松地发帖:

irb(main):061:0> def post(uri, data, headers)
irb(main):062:1> uri = URI.parse(uri)
irb(main):063:1> http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
irb(main):064:1> return http.post(uri.path, data, headers)
irb(main):065:1> end
=> nil
# Set up our POST url
irb(main):066:0> post_url = \ 
irb(main):067:0* "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full"
=> "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full"

# We must use 'application/atom+xml' as MIME type so let's change our headers 
# which were still set to 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded' when we sent our 
# ClientLogin information over https
irb(main):068:0> headers["Content-Type"] = "application/atom+xml"
=> "application/atom+xml"

# Setting up our data to post, using proper namespaces
irb(main):069:0> new_row = \ 
irb(main):070:0* '<atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">' << 
irb(main):071:0* '<gsx:language xmlns:gsx="http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006/extended">' <<
irb(main):072:0* 'ruby</gsx:language>' << 
irb(main):073:0* '<gsx:website xmlns:gsx="http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006/extended">' <<
irb(main):074:0* 'http://ruby-lang.org</gsx:website>' << 
irb(main):075:0* '</atom:entry>'
=> "<atom:entry xmlns:atom=\"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom\"><gsx:language ... [ snip ] 

# Performing the post
irb(main):076:0> post_response = post(post_url, new_row, headers) 
=> #<Net::HTTPCreated 201 Created readbody=true>

201 状态表示我们的帖子已成功发布。

使用 cellFeed 更新内容

文档中可以看出,单元格 Feed 更倾向于对现有内容发出 PUT 请求。但由于我们之前从 cellFeed 中检索的信息只是实际电子表格中已有的数据,那么我们如何添加新信息呢?我们只需针对要输入数据的每个空单元格发出请求。以下代码段展示了如何检索空的单元格 R5C1(第 5 行,第 1 列),要在其中插入一些关于 Python 编程语言的信息。

我们的原始变量 cellfeed_uri 仅包含单元格 Feed 本身的 URI。现在,我们想要附加您要修改的单元格,并获取该单元格版本字符串以进行编辑:

# Set our query URI
irb(main):077:0> cellfeed_query = cellfeed_uri + '/R5C1'
=> "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R5C1"

# Request the information to extract the edit link
irb(main):078:0> cellfeed_data = get_feed(cellfeed_query, headers)
=> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>
irb(main):079:0> cellfeed_data.body
=> "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gs='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006' xmlns:batch='http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch'>
<id>http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R5C1</id>
<updated>2008-03-24T21:55:36.462Z</updated>
<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006' term='http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#cell'/>
<title type='text'>A5</title>
<content type='text'>
</content>
<link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R5C1'/>
<link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R5C1/47pc'/>
<gs:cell row='5' col='1' inputValue=''>
</gs:cell>
</entry>"

如上面的代码列表所示,版本字符串为 47pc。(您可能需要一直滚动到右侧。)为了简化操作,我们来创建一个方便的方法,用于获取我们感兴趣的单元格的版本字符串:

irb(main):080:0> def get_version_string(uri, headers=nil)
irb(main):081:1> response = get_feed(uri, headers)
irb(main):082:1> require 'rexml/document'
irb(main):083:1> xml = REXML::Document.new response.body
irb(main):084:1> edit_link = REXML::XPath.first(xml, '//[@rel="edit"]')
irb(main):085:1> edit_link_href = edit_link.attribute('href').to_s
irb(main):086:1> return edit_link_href.split(/\//)[10]
irb(main):087:1> end
=> nil

# A quick test
irb(main):088:0> puts get_version_string(cellfeed_query, headers)
47pc
=> nil

在完成这项工作的过程中,我们还可以编写一个方法来执行 PUT 请求;或者,更好的方式是编写一个方法来执行整个批量更新。我们的函数将接受一个包含下列变量的哈希数组:

  • :batch_id - 批量请求的每个部分的唯一标识符。
  • :cell_id - 要以 R#C# 格式更新的单元格的 ID,其中单元格 A1 将表示为 R1C1。
  • :data - 要插入的数据。

irb(main):088:0> def batch_update(batch_data, cellfeed_uri, headers)
irb(main):089:1> batch_uri = cellfeed_uri + '/batch'
irb(main):090:1> batch_request = <<FEED
irb(main):091:1" <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> \
irb(main):092:1" <feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" \
irb(main):093:1" xmlns:batch="http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch" \
irb(main):094:1" xmlns:gs="http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006" \
irb(main):095:1" xmlns:gd="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005">
irb(main):096:1" <id>#{cellfeed_uri}</id>
irb(main):097:1" FEED
irb(main):098:1> batch_data.each do |batch_request_data|
irb(main):099:2* version_string = get_version_string(cellfeed_uri + '/' + batch_request_data[:cell_id], headers)
irb(main):100:2> data = batch_request_data[:data]
irb(main):101:2> batch_id = batch_request_data[:batch_id]
irb(main):102:2> cell_id = batch_request_data[:cell_id]
irb(main):103:2> row = batch_request_data[:cell_id][1,1]
irb(main):104:2> column = batch_request_data[:cell_id][3,1]
irb(main):105:2> edit_link = cellfeed_uri + '/' + cell_id + '/' + version_string
irb(main):106:2> batch_request<< <<ENTRY
irb(main):107:2" <entry>
irb(main):108:2" <gs:cell col="#{column}" inputValue="#{data}" row="#{row}"/>
irb(main):109:2" <batch:id>#{batch_id}</batch:id>
irb(main):110:2" <batch:operation type="update" />
irb(main):111:2" <id>#{cellfeed_uri}/#{cell_id}</id>
irb(main):112:2" <link href="#{edit_link}" rel="edit" type="application/atom+xml" />
irb(main):113:2" </entry>
irb(main):114:2" ENTRY
irb(main):115:2> end
irb(main):116:1> batch_request << '</feed>'
irb(main):117:1> return post(batch_uri, batch_request, headers)
irb(main):118:1> end
=> nil

# Our sample batch data to insert information about the Python programming language into our worksheet
irb(main):119:0> batch_data = [ \
irb(main):120:0* {:batch_id => 'A', :cell_id => 'R5C1', :data => 'Python'}, \ 
irb(main):121:0* {:batch_id => 'B', :cell_id => 'R5C2', :data => 'http://python.org' } ]
=> [{:cell_id=>"R5C1", :data=>"Python", :batch_id=>"A"}=>{:cell_id=>"R5C2", :data=>"http://python.org", :batch_id=>"B"}]

# Perform the update
irb(main):122:0> response = batch_update(batch_data, cellfeed_uri, headers)
=> #<Net::HTTPOK 200 OK readbody=true>

# Parse the response.body XML and print it
irb(main):123:0> response_xml = XmlSimple.xml_in(response.body, 'KeyAttr' => 'name')
=> [ snip ]

irb(main):124:0> pp response_xml
{"title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"Batch Feed"}],
 "xmlns:atom"=>"http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom",
 "id"=>
  ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full"],
 "entry"=>
  [{"status"=>[{"code"=>"200", "reason"=>"Success"}],
    "category"=>
     [{"term"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006#cell",
       "scheme"=>"http://schemas.google.com/spreadsheets/2006"}],
    "cell"=>
     [{"col"=>"1", "row"=>"5", "content"=>"Python", "inputValue"=>"Python"}],
    "title"=>[{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"A5"}],
    "id"=>
     ["http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R5C1",
      "A"],
    "operation"=>[{"type"=>"update"}],
    "content"=>{"type"=>"text", "content"=>"Python"},
    "link"=>
     [{"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R5C1",
       "rel"=>"self",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"},
      {"href"=>
        "http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/cells/o04927555739056712307.3387874275736238738/od6/private/full/R5C1/49kwzg",
       "rel"=>"edit",
       "type"=>"application/atom+xml"}],
    "updated"=>["2008-03-27T15:48:48.470Z"]},
    [ snip ]

如您所见,我们的批量请求已成功,因为我们收到了 200 OK 响应代码。解析响应 XML 时,我们可以看到在 response_data 数组中设置的每个 :batch_id 都返回了单独的消息。如需详细了解批处理,请参阅 GData 中的批处理文档。

总结

如您所见,使用 Ruby 的交互式 shell 玩转 Google Data API 非常简单。我们可以使用 listFeed 和 cellFeed 访问电子表格和工作表。此外,我们还使用 POST 请求插入了一些新数据,然后编写了用大约 120 行代码执行批量更新的方法。从这一点开始,将一些简单的方法封装到类中并构建自己可重复使用的框架应该不会太难。

如果您对将这些工具与自己最喜爱的 Google Data API 配合使用有任何疑问,请加入论坛

您可在 http://code.google.com/p/google-data-samples-ruby 中找到包含上述代码示例的类文件

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