Error over incorrect Axios request configuration

[MrSlide]

I'm using the Google APIs client 24.0.0 and the OAuth2Client from Google Auth library 1.0.0 to read a spreadsheet from Google Sheets, and it outputs a message to the console every time I make a request:

'json' is not a valid configuration option. Please use 'data' instead. This library is using Axios for requests. Please see https://github.com/axios/axios to learn more about the valid request options.

Basically when the Google APIs library makes a request to the OAuth2Client it includes json: true in the options, which is not a valid Axios option and fails the validation of the options passed to the DefaultTransporter.

I managed to trace the source of the issue back to the file src/lib/apirequest.ts and the following bit of code (taken from the non-typescript version):

options.json = resource ||
            ((options.method === 'GET' || options.method === 'DELETE') ? true : {});

The option to set the content type to JSON in Axios is responseType and it already has the default value of json, so this is not necessary.

A couple of lines below I also found this:

options.qs = params;

This options is not a valid Axios option either and the correct option is params, which is being deleted from the options object.

[bogdan-calapod]

I've also stumbled upon this while trying to make a Drive GET request with a Service account (JWT)

Any idea if we can override the options object that the library passes to axios ?

[MrSlide]

I don't think it's possible.
This is apparently happening because Google Auth library 1.0.0 had breaking changes, they changed from Request to Axios for dealing with requests and didn't transform the options object so that it was compatible.

Downgrading to the previous version of Google Auth library solved the problem.

[bogdan-calapod]

Do you have any idea on how to specify the request body in the Google Auth library's request function that the client provides? I've been using it to access the Spreadsheet and Google Drive Metadata apis and it's been working great.

What I'm stuck on now is updating permissions and can't for the life of me figure how to pass the body parameters - I keep getting 403 or a cryptic 'Not Found' error

[MrSlide]

I don't think you're meant to be able to pass anything like that. This looks like it should be pretty much a plug and play thing without much configuration. You should just just be able to get the right permissions at the point where you obtain an access token by setting the correct scopes.

[bogdan-calapod]

I ended up taking the access_token from the client instance and making the request manually in axios. On the readme page of this repo it seems that this project is in maintenance - that makes me think that it isn't supported anymore ?

[MrSlide]

I guess the library is simply feature complete and they are not adding anything new

[MrSlide]

Version 25 of the client fixed the issue