Google+ APIs being shutdown on March 7, 2019

[Elointz]

Any plans to update for support of Google Sign-In? (https://developers.google.com/identity/)
The current implementation is for Google+ Sign-In which will be deprecated.
https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/quick-migration-guide

[thomasmichaelwallace]

For information: PR #451 looks like it deals with this.

Scrap that- it just updates them, it still keeps all the google plus api endpoints.

[ptrwtts]

Any update on this? Or has anyone figured out a way to update the library to support the new system?

[thomasmichaelwallace]

It's not much, but we used the following workaround to maintain access to simple logging-in with 'me' functionality:

// provides a hello module for the tiny subset of the Google API used by DevicePilot.
// required while hello.js does not have a fix for the retirement of google plus.
// https://github.com/MrSwitch/hello.js/issues/586

const google = {
  name: 'Google Identity',
  oauth: {
    version: 2,
    auth: 'https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/v2/auth',
    response_type: 'token',
  },
  scope: {
    email: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email',
    profile: 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.profile',
  },
  scope_delim: ' ',
  base: 'https://www.googleapis.com/',
  get: { me: 'userinfo/v2/me' },
  form: false,
};

module.exports = function apply(hello) {
  hello.init({ google });
};

Provide your hello instance to this function and it'll override the google implementation to use the non-G+ endpoints.

[MrSwitch]

Hi all

If you can test the proposed PR #451 and endorse it i will merge it in.

Thanks

[thomasmichaelwallace]

Hi @MrSwitch - unfortunately that PR does not address this issue as it still uses the G+ api

For example:

hello.js/src/modules/google.js

Line 60 in 432b34e

me: 'plus/v1/people/me',

Unfortunately I haven't found time to find api replacements for the comprehensive job the built-in google support has (which is why I fell back on my much cut-back workaround). It might be possible that some functionality doesn't have a migration path (things like friends and feed).

[Elointz]

One week left. Any update on this or suggestion on alternative libraries that will work?
Edit: checked the commit history. I will try the v1.18 release by @MrSwitch and get back.

Update: Compared to #451 v1.18.1 seems to work better. Guess I can only wait now and check my logs in Google Console if plus.people.get requests disappears.

[MrSwitch]

#590 was merged into v1.18.1 thanks.

I haven't tested this extensively so please do, i'll leave this open for now

[thomasmichaelwallace]

Just a note to say that v1.18.1 is working fine for us. 💯

[Elointz]

Working fine for me too. No more calls seen in Google Console.