Checking Google API for target documents

vtomberg commented 8 years ago

To check Google API if it possible to request a version history for linked target documents?

sanderai commented 8 years ago

https://developers.google.com/drive/v3/reference/revisions/list

It seems we can get just the full list of revisions with each request (not just revisions since last modification or n-last revisions). We can request just specific fields we need, which should be what?

time of revision change
? who made the change (name and email) for a quick mouseover to see who edited it?
? id (do we actually need to know the internal id? probably not?)

The query would then look something like this: GET https://www.googleapis.com/drive/v3/files/{{FILE_ID}}/revisions?fields=revisions(lastModifyingUser(displayName,emailAddress),modifiedTime)&key={{YOUR_API_KEY}}

pjotrsavitski commented 8 years ago

Getting all revisions might not be such a big deal, provided that query is only sent once in a while. A list could be easily iterated until the last known revision is found and later ones are deal with (maybe imported into the local storage so that serving that data would be fast and reliable; this would also allow to keep the API usage at bay on the Google side - there are certain limitations and one would have to pay when those are exceeded).

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