ballerinax/googleapis.gmail Ballerina library

Overview

Ballerina Gmail Connector provides the capability to send, read, and delete emails through the Gmail REST API. It also provides the ability to read, trash, untrash, and delete threads, as well as the ability to get the Gmail profile and mailbox history, etc. The connector supports OAuth 2.0 authentication.

This module supports Gmail API v1.

Prerequisites

Before using this connector in your Ballerina application, complete the following:

1. Create a Google account. (If you already have one, you can use that.)

2. Obtain tokens

   • Follow this guide

Quickstart

To use the Gmail connector in your Ballerina application, update the .bal file as follows:

Step 1: Import connector

Import the ballerinax/googleapis.gmail module into the Ballerina project.

import ballerinax/googleapis.gmail;

Step 2: Create a new connector instance

Create a gmail:ConnectionConfig with the OAuth 2.0 tokens obtained, and initialize the connector with it.

gmail:ConnectionConfig gmailConfig = {
    auth: {
        refreshUrl: gmail:REFRESH_URL,
        refreshToken: <REFRESH_TOKEN>,
        clientId: <CLIENT_ID>,
        clientSecret: <CLIENT_SECRET>
    }
};

gmail:Client gmailClient = check new (gmailConfig);

Step 3: Invoke connector operation

1. Now you can use the operations available within the connector. Note that they are in the form of remote operations.
   Following is an example on how to send an email using the connector.

   public function main() returns error? {
       string userId = "me";
       gmail:MessageRequest messageRequest = {
           recipient : "aa@gmail.com",
           cc : "cc@gmail.com",
           subject : "Email-Subject",
           messageBody : "Email Message Body Text",
           // Set the content type of the mail as TEXT_PLAIN or TEXT_HTML.
           contentType : gmail:TEXT_PLAIN
       };
   
       gmail:Message sendMessageResponse = check gmailClient->sendMessage(messageRequest, userId = userId);
   }

2. Use bal run command to compile and run the Ballerina program.

You can find a list of samples here