On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 2:27 PM, kcc pac <kccp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Patrice, > > This is a design issue to me. From my investigation in the issue, it is > deliberately not to expose email address among google plus circle members > (due to the potential spam issues). The aim is to force to use other means > (activities and post in Google Plus platform) for communication purpose. > But, shouldn't the user give his consent when joining the circle? >
That's just not how Google+ works -- you can put any other G+ member in one or more of your circles: he or she gets *informed* of the fact (and offered a chance to do the same, with a reminder that's totally optional), but, not asked for permission. Alex > And again, that is the reason why I ask if there are other means to > communicate privately between circle owner and its members.. > > > Colin > > > On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 4:36:14 PM UTC-4, Patrice (Cloud Platform > Support) wrote: >> >> Hi Colin, >> >> Hmm, I see. I am starting to think this is expected behavior then (not >> extremely familiar with the Google+ API). The way I understand it from the >> docs explaining what you get in "emails[]" from a person resource, you need >> to have THAT person grant the email scope to your application as well. When >> you think about it, it makes sense. >> >> If user A granted your application the scope to get their email, why >> should you get access to the email of user B, that's in his circle, if user >> B didn't explicitly grant you access to HIS email. >> >> The documents could be clearer about this, but I do believe it makes >> sense. Don't you? >> >> Cheers! >> >> On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 3:55:27 PM UTC-4, kcc pac wrote: >>> >>> I use exactly the calls you suggested. But, the email field is null. >>> >>> Colin >>> >>> On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 3:28:17 PM UTC-4, Patrice (Cloud >>> Platform Support) wrote: >>>> >>>> Hi again, >>>> >>>> I did misunderstand your request, apologies for that. >>>> >>>> In a single call, it will not be possible, but I believe that you can >>>> do a "people:list >>>> <https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people/list#try-it>" >>>> with the "collection" set to visible. That will give you all users in >>>> someone's circle. From there, you can do single calls to "people:get" to >>>> get their email. >>>> >>>> Cheers >>>> >>>> On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 2:56:31 PM UTC-4, kcc pac wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Patrice, >>>>> >>>>> Thank you for your reply. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, the people:get call is able to retrieve email information for the >>>>> user (after google login) but not his google circle members. From my >>>>> googling, it says that the email address is not disclosed across his >>>>> google >>>>> plus circle members. Just wonder how gmail can retrieve the email address >>>>> after login through Google plus. >>>>> >>>>> Colin >>>>> >>>>> On Friday, September 25, 2015 at 1:28:55 PM UTC-4, Patrice (Cloud >>>>> Platform Support) wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> I'm pretty sure you can actually get the email from an ID. As >>>>>> explained here >>>>>> <https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people/get>, a >>>>>> "people:get" gives you all the info shown here >>>>>> <https://developers.google.com/+/web/api/rest/latest/people#resource>, >>>>>> which does contain emails. Maybe if the user didn't give permission for >>>>>> the >>>>>> email scope that won't work? >>>>>> >>>>>> Cheers >>>>>> >>>>>> On Thursday, September 24, 2015 at 8:41:41 PM UTC-4, kcc pac wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> hi all, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> how can I email to members in google plus circle using the member >>>>>>> google+ Id? or other ways to info the members.. Apparently, the email >>>>>>> can >>>>>>> not be retrieved by using google plus people API. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Colin >>>>>>> >>>>>> -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Google App Engine" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/49e1dd6b-e0a5-47a2-a986-1007df79e23a%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/49e1dd6b-e0a5-47a2-a986-1007df79e23a%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/google-appengine/CAE46Be_9LkqUyKULS17rE3_8M5xPwe%2BsFxOgDx_dmSxhhX2xZg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
