• test - might come over as an error call. should set up a daemon to run for a while until we fail

i am calling my own personal error handlers, but that won't make for a good component since i save the records in a table, and components can't have regular 4d tables.
i think the user is going to want to be able to send output to their own error handlers if they are going to submodule and throw in the components folder.

know the current status of the sheet, current range, etc., before loading, again
possibly use developer metadata api

also would have to set sheetdata if we do this

I am really beating around the bush on implementing a more general version of this
there are many different sheet requests that should probably be managed via properties being changed and then sent back

it looks like a lot of this code is going to be similar

1. handle params /build query string - probably could do with a specifier as to what the different pieces are
2. build the url
3. do the query and return something

especially for values for a sheet, i think we added a separate property tree.
i think what we should do, instead is add a reference to the current sheet, and leave the object intact, so the dev can modify the object directly, and the code for future development of the class is clearer and more straightforward (and it's easier to communicate with the google API)

make it easier to insert on top and push down
might also want to be able to just add to the top, i.e. a "reverse append" - but it isn't really a reverse append b/c we'd want to maintain the existing header rows, and insert under them.

getSheetnames() works until i duplicate the sheet? set values for the sheet?
then the structure breaks and the function doesn't work b/c the props have changed.

like when trying to find the bottom of a table
useful when trying to read data

Here's doing it one way

$blankRowNumber:=$dataRow  // starting to look on $dataRow
$done:=False
For each ($rowData; $values.values; $dataRow) Until ($done)
    While ($rowData.length<=$commentCol)
        $rowData.push("")
    End while   //($rowData.length<=($commentCol+1))
						
    If ((String($rowData[$dateCol])#"") |\
        (String($rowData[$psCol])#"") |\
        (String($rowData[$shipCol])#"") |\
        (String($rowData[$recCol])#""))  //skip comments column b/c it might be undefined.
        $blankRowNumber:=$blankRowNumber+1
    Else 
        $done:=True
    End if   // ((String($rowData[$dateCol])="") & (String($rowData[$psCol])="") & (String($rowData[$shipCol])="") & (String($rowData[$recCol])="") & (String($rowData[$commentCol])=""))
End for each   //($rowData;$values.values) Until ($done)

• derive range
• generate a1 notation for collection

creating a sheet should be simple, right?
I found the following:
Create a spreadsheet which uses the create method - but i'm not sure if that url is helpful, because it's calling javascript.

But, it's not that simple, either - you can't create one where you want it, you have to move it

The http request is just POST https://sheets.googleapis.com/v4/spreadsheets, which implies that you don't even call create

https://discuss.4d.com/t/component-classes/20364/6
Especially
https://discuss.4d.com/t/component-classes/20364/3?u=mikey
namespace
https://blog.4d.com/access-your-component-classes-from-your-host-project/
https://developer.4d.com/docs/en/Extensions/develop-components.html#declaring-the-component-namespace

• failed auth
• failed call to google
• add via asserts and error routines?
• 404, address invalid (1)

i used K's jwt library, but since 4d's mobile lib has native jwt code, we could use that, instead.

eventDelete is an event function

meh. i changed the way it worked, so it doesn't need to append values, any longer.

• appendValues
• createSpreadsheet
• copySheetToSpreadsheet
• duplicateSheet
• entitySelectionToCollection
• findSheetWithName
• getSheetNames
• getValues
• load
• parseError
• renameSheet
• setValues

• select cal
• create cal
• list events
• add event
• delete event
• authenticate…
• modify event
• calendar list vs. calendar get
• other calendar methods
• other event methods
• support paging

InsertDataOption and specify insertDataOption=INSERT_ROWS.

• break it with a non-unique name
• develop a tool to deconfilct
  might be able to do it by passing a path - if more than one match, error, and then dev can throw a path in, which we can traverse to deconflict.

in the api description, google says that, in effect, rows will not be padded to get the right number of columns. either add code to the fetch or add separate code to get the collection to the dimension specified.
should we go both rows and columns?

probably gonna have to add a drive class

i think the _auth was borked, but in all of the handling, it didn't get handled

this is especially true for things we can do via batchUpdate

the old code basically disabled both the range and the include grid properties. i'm wondering why.

and maybe spreadsheet.sheets should be a collection of sheet objects

pull a paticular event from the calendar. how we get it isn't relelvant, that's up to the calendar to either have the events preloaded or to grab it from the server.

• pass an entity selection
• it's already pretty straightforward to use a collection, but you have to assign the object .values, first.

probably should use a drive op to determine that, and give the dev a warning.

and now i'm in full-on creating sheets mode, but there isn't an easy way to do that.

if i throw a subset over the wall, all the other data in the sheet should disappear
especially if i specify the full range

Could skin the "insert at the top" cat by inserting a range and then filling it, instead of appending
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/samples/rowcolumn

There are other things that are useful like auto-resizing rows/columns