Question

I’m trying to create a calendar via the Google javascript API. OAuth authentication is working fine : I’m able to get a list of calendars using:

gapi.client.calendar.calendarList.list();

However, when I try to create a calendar with:

gapi.client.calendar.calendars.insert(
{
    "summary": "A New Calendar",
    "description": "Generated by Ben",
    "timezone" : "Australia/Sydney"
});

I get:

{
  "error": {
  "code": 400,
  "message": "Required",
  "data": [
   {
    "domain": "global",
    "reason": "required",
    "message": "Required"
   }
  ]
 },
 "id": "gapiRpc"
}

In doco for other APIs it shows this response, but with a list of the required arguments that are missing.

Is there any way to determine what ‘required’ parameter I’m missing? I’ve tested it with the API Explorer and my parameters appear to work fine.

Answer 1

Finally figured this out. The properties need to be in a ‘resource’ object:

gapi.client.calendar.calendars.insert(
{
    "resource" :
    {"summary": "A New Calendar",
    "description": "Generated by Ben",
    "timezone" : "Australia/Sydney"}
});

The doco doesn’t mention this, but if you look at the response to the initial call to gapi.auth.authorize you’ll find JSON describing the entire API for the scope you’ve specified.