sample_tools.py Requires the Deprecated oauth2client Library

[KevinTydlacka]

Please update to use google-auth. If you're concerned about breaking changes try to import google-auth and use the flow from that library and fall back to oauth2client if google-auth is not present?

Environment details

• OS: All
• Python version: 3.6
• pip version: All
• google-api-python-client version: 1.7.11

Steps to reproduce

1. Install google-api-python-client.
2. Run init() from googleapiclient/sample_tools.py.
3. Observe exception:
   ImportError: googleapiclient.sample_tools requires oauth2client. Please install oauth2client and try again.

[madtyn]

I'm also finding difficult to update from google-api-python-cliente 1.6.5 because there is no reference source code which I can take a look at. Now my code is broken suddenly and I don't find how to make the proper changes in order to fix it because of the oauth2client issue.

Also found a python3 port but it seems out of maintenance.

I would be grateful if someone could point me out what to do. Thank you very much in advance.

[busunkim96]

@KevinTydlacka @madtyn What are you all using sample_tools for? I was under the impression that it was exclusively used by older google-published samples.

[madtyn]

I just saw this answer.

Well is the only reference and sample code I had found at first showing how to use this library for accessing Blogger API. Now doing in such a way fails and I can't find any sample code of how I am supposed to use this same library now. Surely, emulating sample_tools doesn't help.

[madtyn]

@KevinTydlacka @madtyn What are you all using sample_tools for? I was under the impression that it was exclusively used by older google-published samples.

Well, when I'm using some library, I use to look for some code I can read, understand, and imitate. sample_tools is that code in this case and is not useful.

So with no proper documentation and no sample code it's harder to make this work. At least not without effort or some experience which enables you to read and understand the whole library, but that should not be the way we use libraries, should it?

[busunkim96]

Unfortunately there are a lot of older samples we don't currently have the bandwidth to update. On the bright side, most samples use the same boilerplate auth, so I referencing any the examples below should be enough to update existing code.

Implicit/explicit flows using service accounts: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/python-docs-samples/blob/6879d73123135459fa45a36211505d1ead37978a/auth/api-client/snippets.py

oauth2 flow (for user credentials): https://github.com/gsuitedevs/python-samples/blob/master/docs/quickstart/quickstart.py