Google API Fusion Table permissioning

I recently worked on a project where I needed to update an application that leveraged Google Fusion Tables. The Google API changed significantly, and the application did not work anymore. While I found a good Fusion Table coding example of how to get the Java code changed properly, I had a lot of difficulty getting the permissioning set up.

Here is a brief summary of how I got it to work, in the hopes that it might help others who are having similar problems:

Connect the table to the Fusion Table application

• If the table you are interested in is not already connected to Fusion Tables, click it in your Google Drive, and then click the Connect button.

Turn on the Fusion Table API Service

• Open the Google API Console
• Create a new project if you need to
• In Services, turn on Fusion Tables API

Set up a Service Account

• In the Google API Console, open API Access and click the Create an OAuth 2.0 client ID button
• Enter a Product Name and click Next
• Click the Service Account radio button, and then Create Client ID
• Download the key file into your project, and rename it to whatever is appropriate for you to use in your application
• You will also need the "Email Address", which is referred to as the "Application ID" within the API

Set permissions on the table file

This one was really difficult to figure out. If you need to do INSERTs or DELETEs into the Fusion Table, then you will need to set "writer" permissions for the Service Account. If you only need to SELECT from your application, then you can skip this step, of course.

• Open the Google Drive SDK Permissions Page
• Turn on the Authorize requests using OAuth 2.0 toggle (you should be prompted to authorize)
• Enter the following information:
  • Field: [the fusion table ID]
  • role: writer
  • type: user
  • value: ["Email Address" from the Console]

Java code

That should be it. Following the example code, you will set up a credential:

credential = new GoogleCredential.Builder()
    .setTransport(HTTP_TRANSPORT)
    .setJsonFactory(JSON_FACTORY)
    .setServiceAccountId(config.getAccountId())
    .setServiceAccountScopes(Collections.singleton(FusiontablesScopes.FUSIONTABLES))
    .setServiceAccountPrivateKeyFromP12File(keyFile)
    .build();

Make your Fusion Table object:

fusiontables = new Fusiontables.Builder(HTTP_TRANSPORT, JSON_FACTORY, credential).build();

Run your various SQL statements:

response = fusiontables.query().sql(insertSql).execute();

Hope that helps someone!