angular-google-picker

Angular directive that interact with the Google API Picker :

• https://developers.google.com/picker

Requirements: AngularJS 1.2+

File Size: 1.67Kb minified

Installation

Using Bower (recommended)

$ bower install edwardysun/angular-google-picker#<version> --save

where version is the branch name you want (e.g. master) or the commit SHA.

Build

$ gulp
$ git commit -am "Build <summary>" -m "<optional extended summary>"

Test

Tests are part of the build process, but if you want to run them separately, simply:

$ gulp test

Usage

1. Include Google client and api script in your layout

<script src="http://apis.google.com/js/client.js"></script>
<script src="http://apis.google.com/js/api.js"></script>

2. Include the Google Picker as a dependency for your app

angular.module('myApp', ['lk-google-picker'])

3. Configure the plugin (see below configuration section)

4. Create a scope to handle files that will be selected

angular.module('myApp', ['lk-google-picker'])
  .controller('ExampleCtrl', ['$scope', function($scope) {
    $scope.files = [];
  }]);

5. Add the directive to your HTML element

<a href="javascript:;" lk-google-picker picker-files="files">Open my Google Drive</a>

6. That's it, you're done!

You'll notice here the usage of picker-files. You need to pass here a scope that gonna receive the selected files. Once selected, the plugin gonna push files into it. A file is a json object that looks like :

[
  {
    "id": "0B50DHrsuMky6UFlSQloxYGBxT2M",
    "serviceId": "docs",
    "mimeType": "image/jpeg",
    "name": "DSC01845.JPG",
    "type": "photo",
    "lastEditedUtc": 1409023514905,
    "iconUrl": "https://ssl.gstatic.com/docs/doclist/images/icon_11_image_list.png",
    "description": "",
    "url": "https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B50DHrsuMky6UFlSQloxYGBxT2M/edit?usp=drive_web",
    "sizeBytes": 1570863,
    "parentId": "0B50DHrsuMkx6cWhrSXpTR1cyYW8"
  },
  {
    ...
  }
]

Configuration

In order to work, Google Picker needs to connect to the Google API using an application credentials (Api Key and client ID). For more information on how to create an application/project, please refer to https://developers.google.com/drive/web/. To do so, you'll need to configure the service.

Using configure(options)

angular.module('myApp', ['lk-google-picker'])
  .config(['lkGoogleSettingsProvider', function(lkGoogleSettingsProvider) {
    lkGoogleSettingsProvider.configure({
      apiKey   : 'YOUR_API_KEY',
      clientId : 'YOUR_CLIENT_ID',
      scopes   : ['https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive', 'another_scope', 'and_another'],
      locale   : 'ja',
      features : ['..', '..'],
      views    : ['..', '..']
    });
  }])

Features

The Picker use the concept of views and features that allow you to customize it. The service provider allow you to enable some features to the Picker the same way you define your API Key or client ID (using either configure or setters).

angular.module('myApp', ['lk-google-picker'])
  .config(['lkGoogleSettingsProvider', function(lkGoogleSettingsProvider) {
    lkGoogleSettingsProvider.features(['MULTISELECT_ENABLED', 'ANOTHER_ONE']);
  }])

Default : MULTISELECT_ENABLED feature is use as default.

Please refer to https://developers.google.com/picker/docs/reference for more information.

Views

Views are objects that needs to be instantiated using the namespace google.picker.*. That namespace is already defined in the core of the directive. In order to add views to your picker, all you need to do is to define the class that needs to be used :

angular.module('myApp', ['lk-google-picker'])
  .config(['lkGoogleSettingsProvider', function(lkGoogleSettingsProvider) {
    lkGoogleSettingsProvider.views([
      'DocsUploadView()',
      'DocsView()'
    ]);
  }])

NOTE : Views classes have some useful methods such as setIncludeFolders or setStarred (or any other methods available). In order to use them, just chain them to the class :

angular.module('myApp', ['lk-google-picker'])
  .config(['lkGoogleSettingsProvider', function(lkGoogleSettingsProvider) {
    lkGoogleSettingsProvider.setViews([
      'DocsUploadView().setIncludeFolders(true)',
      'DocsView().setStarred(true)'
    ]);
  }])

Default : DocsUploadView and DocsView are use as default.

Please refer to https://developers.google.com/picker/docs/reference for more information.

Example

The demo version available at http://softmonkeyjapan.github.io/angular-google-picker/ can be found in the example folder. You will need a server in order to try it on your local machine. Since the Google Picker demo application is setup to allow origin from localhost:8000, I encourage you to use the python SimpleHTTPServer :

$ cd path/to/the/example/directory
$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer
Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ...

You should now be able to browse to localhost:8000 and see it in action from your localhost.

Demo

A demo version is available at http://softmonkeyjapan.github.io/angular-google-picker/.

License

Licensed under the MIT license