Instructions for the TaskQueue V1Beta1 Command-Line Sample

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• Browse Source, or main file TaskQueueSample.java

Checkout Instructions

Prerequisites: install Java 6, Mercurial and Maven. You may need to set your JAVA_HOME.

Important: after checking out the project, and before compiling and running it, you need to edit client_secrets.json to enter the required credentials information (see instructions). Otherwise, you will get a 400 INVALID_CLIENT error in the browser.

cd [someDirectory]
hg clone https://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client.samples/ google-api-java-client-samples
cd google-api-java-client-samples/shared/shared-sample-cmdline
[editor] src/main/resources/client_secrets.json
mvn source:jar install
cd ../../taskqueue-cmdline-sample
mvn compile
mvn -q exec:java -Dexec.args="appName taskqueueName leaseSeconds numberOfTasksTobeLeased"

Setup Project in Eclipse 3.5/3.6

Prerequisites: install Eclipse, the Mercurial plugin, and the Maven plugin.

• Setup Eclipse Preferences
  • Window > Preferences... (or on Mac, Eclipse > Preferences...)
  • Select Maven
    • check on "Download Artifact Sources"
    • check on "Download Artifact JavaDoc"
• Import taskqueue-cmdline-sample project
  • File > Import...
  • Select "General > Existing Project into Workspace" and click "Next"
  • Click "Browse" next to "Select root directory", find [someDirectory]/google-api-java-client-samples/taskqueue-cmdline-sample and click "Next"
  • Click "Finish"
• Run
  • Right-click on project taskqueue-cmdline-sample
  • Run As > Java Application
  • If asked, type "TaskQueueSample" and click OK
• To enable logging:
  • Run > Run Configurations...
  • Click on "Java Application > TaskQueueSample"
  • Click on "Arguments" tab
  • VM arguments: -Djava.util.logging.config.file=${project_loc}/logging.properties
  • Click "Run"