Instructions for the Compute Engine V1 Command-Line Sample

Browse Online

• Browse Source, or main file ComputeEngineSample.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"
• Click on "API Access", and then on "Create an OAuth 2.0 Client ID...".
• Enter a product name and click "Next".
• Select "Installed application" and click "Create client ID".
• In the newly created "Client ID for installed applications", click "Download JSON" on the right side. Later on after you check out the sample project, you will copy this downloaded file (e.g. ~/Downloads/client_secrets.json) to src/main/resources/client_secrets.json.
• Enter the your Project ID from the APIs Console under the Overview pane into /src/main/java/com/google/api/services/samples/computeengine/cmdline/ComputeEngineSample.java so that the line

  private static final String projectId = "YOUR_PROJECT_ID"

  is updated to your Project ID (otherwise you will get a 400 Bad Request "Invalid value 'YOUR_PROJECT_ID'" error response). For more information see setting your project ID

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/compute-engine-cmdline-sample
cp ~/Downloads/client_secrets.json src/main/resources/client_secrets.json
[editor] src/main/java/com/google/api/services/samples/computeengine/cmdline/ComputeEngineSample.java
mvn compile
mvn -q exec:java
  

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 compute-engine-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/compute-engine-cmdline-sample and click "Next"
  • Click "Finish"
• Run
  • Right-click on project compute-engine-cmdline-sample
  • Run As > Java Application
  • If asked, type "ComputeEngineSample" and click OK