Cannot read property 'OAuth2' of undefined

[IshaanRawat]

In the Google sheets api sample code:
https://github.com/gsuitedevs/node-samples/blob/e426bd6af84904ea49ebd043787659936264727a/sheets/quickstart/index.js#L20

Expected Behavior

The following should be working properly.
const google = require('googleapis');
const OAuth2Client = google.auth.OAuth2;

Actual Behavior

Instead, it is showing
Cannot read property 'OAuth2' of undefined

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Just create a quickstart.js with the code linked above.
2. Install required packages.
3. Run node quickstart.js.

Solution

After debugging the code, I found out that it is using the google property in the google variable that we required from googleapis. This bug was resulting in the undefined behavior as google.auth is not defined. What actually defined is google.google.auth.
So what I did was extract the google property directly be using ES6 destructuring which fixed this issue and all the further issues which were created by it.
const {google} = require('googleapis');

Specifications

• Node version - v8.10.0
• OS - Linux(Ubuntu v16.04)

[iwin2471]

I already fix this problem at #3
but I didn't mention about this problem in my description sorry

[IshaanRawat]

No worries. 👍
By the way, this problem is still there in many gsuitedev/node-samples quickstart codes and READMEs. If you want I can fix them on all the places.

[grant]

@IshaanRawat Please do! PRs are very welcome and much appreciated.

[IshaanRawat]

@grant I found this issue on many of the Node.js documentation on the Google website also. I would be happy to contribute to those also.

[paigekehoe]

This change isn't reflected on the sheets page of developers.google.com still!
See: https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/nodejs
Not sure if this is the spot to raise this though. Let me know if I should post somewhere else.

[grant]

Thanks @paigekehoe.
Looks like I haven't published the updated GitHub snippets for all the pages with changes in the above PR.
I will leave this issue open until I do.

[kielypatrick]

Thanks, good spot!

[awesome-urch]

@IshaanRawat Thanks!

[grant]

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