new analytics api samples. Reviewed here: http://codereview.appspot.com/5494058/
Fixes issue #5494058
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+#
+# Copyright 2012 Google Inc. All Rights Reserved.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+"""Utilities for Analytics API code samples.
+
+Handles various tasks to do with logging, authentication and initialization.
+Mostly taken from Sergio :)
+
+Before You Begin:
+
+You must update the client_secrets.json file with a client id, client secret,
+and the redirect uri. You get these values by creating a new project
+in the Google APIs console and registering for OAuth2.0 for installed
+applications: https://code.google.com/apis/console
+
+Also all OAuth2.0 tokens are stored for resue in the file specified
+as TOKEN_FILE_NAME. You can modify this file name if you wish.
+"""
+
+__author__ = ('sergio.gomes@google.com (Sergio Gomes)'
+              'api.nickm@gmail.com (Nick Mihailovski)')
+
+import logging
+import os
+import sys
+from apiclient.discovery import build
+import gflags
+import httplib2
+from oauth2client.client import flow_from_clientsecrets
+from oauth2client.file import Storage
+from oauth2client.tools import run
+
+
+FLAGS = gflags.FLAGS
+
+# CLIENT_SECRETS, name of a file containing the OAuth 2.0 information for this
+# application, including client_id and client_secret. You get these values by
+# creating a new project in the Google APIs console and registering for
+# OAuth2.0 for installed applications: <https://code.google.com/apis/console>
+CLIENT_SECRETS = 'client_secrets.json'
+
+
+# Helpful message to display in the browser if the CLIENT_SECRETS file
+# is missing.
+MISSING_CLIENT_SECRETS_MESSAGE = """
+WARNING: Please configure OAuth 2.0
+
+To make this sample run you will need to populate the client_secrets.json file
+found at:
+
+   %s
+
+with information from the APIs Console <https://code.google.com/apis/console>.
+
+""" % os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), CLIENT_SECRETS)
+
+# Set up a Flow object to be used if we need to authenticate.
+FLOW = flow_from_clientsecrets(CLIENT_SECRETS,
+    scope='https://www.googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly',
+    message=MISSING_CLIENT_SECRETS_MESSAGE)
+
+# The gflags module makes defining command-line options easy for applications.
+# Run this program with the '--help' argument to see all the flags that it
+# understands.
+gflags.DEFINE_enum('logging_level', 'ERROR',
+                   ['DEBUG', 'INFO', 'WARNING', 'ERROR', 'CRITICAL'],
+                   'Set the level of logging detail.')
+
+
+# Name of file that will store the access and refresh tokens to access
+# the API without having to login each time. Make sure this file is in
+# a secure place.
+TOKEN_FILE_NAME = 'analytics.dat'
+
+
+def process_flags(argv):
+  """Uses the command-line flags to set the logging level.
+
+  Args:
+    argv: List of command line arguments passed to the python script.
+  """
+
+  # Let the gflags module process the command-line arguments.
+  try:
+    argv = FLAGS(argv)
+  except gflags.FlagsError, e:
+    print '%s\nUsage: %s ARGS\n%s' % (e, argv[0], FLAGS)
+    sys.exit(1)
+
+  # Set the logging according to the command-line flag.
+  logging.getLogger().setLevel(getattr(logging, FLAGS.logging_level))
+
+
+def initialize_service():
+  """Returns an instance of service from discovery data and does auth.
+
+  This method tries to read any existing OAuth 2.0 credentials from the
+  Storage object. If the credentials do not exist, new credentials are
+  obtained. The crdentials are used to authorize an http object. The
+  http object is used to build the analytics service object.
+
+  Returns:
+    An analytics v3 service object.
+  """
+
+  # Create an httplib2.Http object to handle our HTTP requests.
+  http = httplib2.Http()
+
+  # Prepare credentials, and authorize HTTP object with them.
+  storage = Storage(TOKEN_FILE_NAME)
+  credentials = storage.get()
+  if credentials is None or credentials.invalid:
+    credentials = run(FLOW, storage)
+
+  http = credentials.authorize(http)
+
+  # Retrieve service.
+  return build('analytics', 'v3', http=http)