Instructions for the Google Books V1 JSON Command-Line Sample

Browse Online

• Browse Source, or main file BooksSample.java

Register Your Application

• Visit the Google apis console
• If this is your first time, click "Create project..."
• Otherwise, click on the drop down under the "Google apis" logo at the top left, and click "Create..." under "Other projects"
• Activate the Books API and agree to the terms of service
• Click on "API Access"
• Enter the "API Key" shown under "Simple API Access" into the API_KEY constant found in class com.google.api.services.samples.books.cmdline.ClientCredentials

Checkout Instructions

Prerequisites: install Java 6, Mercurial and Maven. You may need to set your JAVA_HOME .

    cd [someDirectory]
hg clone https://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client.samples/ google-api-java-client-samples
cd google-api-java-client-samples/books-cmdline-sample
[editor] src/main/java/com/google/api/services/samples/books/cmdline/ClientCredentials.java
mvn compile
mvn -q exec:java -Dexec.args=Google
  

To enable logging of HTTP requests and responses (highly recommended when developing), please take a look at logging.properties.

Setup Project in Eclipse

Prerequisites: install Eclipse, the Mercurial plugin, and the Maven plugin.

• Setup Eclipse Preferences
  • Window > Preferences... (or on Mac, Eclipse > Preferences...)
  • Select Maven
    • check on "Download Artifact Sources"
    • check on "Download Artifact JavaDoc"
• Import books-cmdline-sample project
  • File > Import...
  • Select "General > Existing Project into Workspace" and click "Next"
  • Click "Browse" next to "Select root directory", find [someDirectory]/google-api-java-client-samples/books-cmdline-sample and click "Next"
  • Click "Finish"
• Run
  • Right-click on project books-cmdline-sample
  • Run As > Java Application
  • If asked, type "BooksSample" and click OK
  • To run:
    • Run > Run Configurations...
    • Click on "Java Application > BooksSample"
    • Click on "Arguments" tab
    • Program arguments: "Mark Twain"
    • See comments in BooksSample.java for full command line arguments.
    • VM arguments: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=${project_loc}/logging.properties
    • Click "Run"