Question

Using the google document API, I am creating a document and added access rules. In my system I only have one email address of this particular user. Let’s say it’s [e-mail]. Using that email address I add an access rule to my google doc. Within google John Doe has two email addresses: a primary ([e-mail]) and a secondary ([e-mail]). Google seems to be smart enough to make the association and when I look at the sharing for that document it shows John’s primary email address ([e-mail]).

The problem is now I need to find that access rule and delete it, so I do a find (using the document API) to find the access rule by email address and since I only have the one email address ([e-mail]) google returns nothing.

Hopefully I’m missing a simple solution here such as:

• Can I request the access rule from google using the email address I
  have and using some undocumented feature have google look up the
  record via primary or secondary email address?

• Obtain the primary email address on access rule creation? (doesn’t
  appear to be returned).

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

According to the API, you just need to issue a DELETE request for the give acl. See “Removing sharing permissions”. So, it should resolve the primary/secondary emails for you just like add.

https://developers.google.com/google-apps/documents-list/