Google Contacts policy

A Google Contacts policy contains the connection details that are used by a Google Contacts Request node when connecting to Google Contacts.

You can use a Google Contacts Request node in a message flow to connect IBM® App Connect Enterprise to Google Contacts and issue requests to create, retrieve, update, or delete contacts and contact groups. The Google Contacts policy controls, at run time, access to the Google Contacts application.

The Google Contacts policy is created when you configure a connection between a Google Contacts Request node and Google Contacts by using the Connector Discovery wizard. During the process of discovery, account credentials are stored in the vault and connection details are stored in a Google Contacts policy. The policy is created with a type of Google Contacts, and the name of the policy is returned to the Google Contacts Request node and specified in the Connection tab of the node, in the format {policyProjectName}:policyName.

You can also create, update, or delete a Google Contacts policy by using the Manage Discovery Connector Policies and Credentials wizard, which you can access by right-clicking the policy project in the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and then clicking New > Discovery Connector policies and credentials.

You must deploy this policy before message flows that use the policy are started. If you redeploy a Google Contacts policy, all message flows that are using the policy will be stopped and restarted.

For more information about using Google Contacts policies, see Using Google Contacts with IBM App Connect Enterprise.

Table 1. Properties of the Google Contacts policy
Property Property name in .policyxml file Description of properties
Credential Name credentialName This property specifies the name of the credential that will be used for the connection to Google Contacts.

The specified credential can be defined during connector discovery and stored in the vault. Alternatively, you can specify an existing credential that was configured by using the mqsicredentials command or the server.conf.yaml file, or loaded through an external credential provider.
Google Contacts Authentication method authenticationMethod This property specifies the type of authentication that is used for the connection between IBM App Connect Enterprise and Google Contacts. This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value BASIC_OAUTH.
Google Contacts Application Type applicationType This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value online.
Google Contacts Application Version applicationVersion This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value v1.