Gbase是一個幫助你發表虛擬類型的任何信息的免費服務，用戶把信息發佈到Gbase上，然後可以在google網站上搜索。這個服務就很有用，我們知道google 的搜索能力很強大，如果我們把我們的產品或者服務發佈到Gbase上，就有可能讓全世界的人看到我們發佈的信息。
發佈一個項目很簡單，前提是必須得有一個google帳戶，有賬戶的用戶步驟如下：
1.進入google base網站首頁：http://www.google.com/base/
2.點擊“One at a time”，就進入了添加item頁面，或者直接登錄進去自己的Gbase首頁，點擊左下角“Add a item”按鈕就可以添加item。
3.填完信息後，點擊“Publish”即可。
這裏添加的信息包括item類別（你可以選擇已有的類別，或者自定義一個類別），然後填寫可能包含的數量、金額和描述信息等等。上述方法是一次添加一個item的方式，如果你想批量添加，可以添加一個本地的xml文件，該文件符合google base規定的格式。
下面介紹如何使用Google base API編寫Gbase應用，主要是給程序開發等編程人員提供參考。
Data item：在Google base 中描述一個單獨的entry,他包含一組屬性。
Attribute：描述內容的name/pair對，如
<g:label>kung pao chicken</g:label>
一個entry的信息如下所示：
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
xmlns:g='http://base.google.com/ns/1.0'>
<author>
<name>Jane Doe</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
</author>
<category scheme='http://www.google.com/type' term='googlebase.item'/>
<title type='text'>He Jingxian's chicken</title>
<content type='xhtml'>
<div xmlns='http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml'>Delectable Sichuan specialty</div>
</content>
<link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://www.host.com/123456jsh9'/>
<g:item_type>Recipes</g:item_type>
<g:cooking_time>30</g:cooking_time>
<g:main_ingredient>chicken</g:main_ingredient>
<g:main_ingredient>chili peppers</g:main_ingredient>
<g:main_ingredient>peanuts</g:main_ingredient>
<g:spices_used>Szechuan peppercorn</g:spices_used>
<g:cook_technique>blackened</g:cook_technique>
</entry>
每一個item都有一個URL，或者說一個唯一的ID，用於標識這個item或者說entry，比我添加的一條記錄的URL如下所示：
http://base.google.com/base/feeds/items/2139682888944988653
item ID是2139682888944988653。
這個URL一般是程序代碼中使用的，item自己生成的URL是http://base.google.com/base/a/6380400/D2139682888944988653，他們的實質都是一樣的。
每一個Googel base API操作跟HTTP方法相同，你可以使用HTTP GET、POST、PUT和DELETE方法來操作。
一個查詢的例子如下所示：
發送的HTTP請求是：
GET /base/feeds/snippets?bq=digital+camera
Content-Type: application/atom+xml
Authorization: AuthSub token=""
X-Google-Key: key=ABQIAAAA7VerLsOcLuBYXR7vZI2NjhTRERdeAiwZ9EeJWta3L_JZVS0bOBRIFbhTrQjhHE52fqjZvfabYYyn6A
由於響應信息比較多，這裏就不顯示了。
使用API添加item的代碼如下所示。
InsertExample.java代碼：
/* Copyright (c) 2006 Google Inc.
*
* 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.
*/
package cn.edu.xidian;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
/**
* Add a new item to Google Base using the Google Base data API server.
*/
public class InsertExample {
/**
* URL of the authenticated customer feed.
*/
private static final String ITEMS_FEED = "http://base.google.com/base/feeds/items";
/**
* The data item we are going to insert, in XML/Atom format.
*/
private static final String DATA_ITEM =
"<?xml version='1.0'?>\n" +
"<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'\n" +
" xmlns:g='http://base.google.com/ns/1.0'>\n" +
" <g:item_type type='text'>repaceService</g:item_type>\n" +
" <title type='text'>EchoService_ID</title>\n" +
" <content type='xhtml'>08d8440b82554bad9a7a5ad9a1487</content>\n" +
"</entry>";
/**
* URL used for authenticating and obtaining an authentication token.
* More details about how it works:
* <code>http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForInstalledApps.html<code>
*/
private static final String AUTHENTICATION_URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin";
/**
* Fill in your Google Account email here.
*/
private static final String EMAIL = "[email protected]";
/**
* Fill in your Google Account password here.
*/
private static final String PASSWORD = "yourpassword";
/**
* The main method constructs a <code>InsertExample</code> instance, obtains an
* authorization token and posts a new item to Google Base.
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
InsertExample insertExample = new InsertExample();
String token = insertExample.authenticate();
System.out.println("Obtained authorization token: " + token);
insertExample.postItem(token);
}
/**
* Inserts <code>DATA_ITEM</code> by making a POST request to
* <code>ITEMS_URL<code>.
* @param token authentication token obtained using <code>authenticate</code>
* @throws IOException if an I/O exception occurs while creating/writing/
* reading the request
*/
public void postItem(String token) throws IOException {
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)(new URL(ITEMS_FEED)).openConnection();
connection.setDoInput(true);
connection.setDoOutput(true);
// Set the properties of the connection: the Http method, the content type
// of the POST request and the authorization header
connection.setRequestMethod("POST");
connection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type", "application/atom+xml");
connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "GoogleLogin auth=" + token);
// Post the data item
OutputStream outputStream = connection.getOutputStream();
outputStream.write(DATA_ITEM.getBytes());
outputStream.close();
// Retrieve the output
int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
InputStream inputStream;
if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_CREATED) {
inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
} else {
inputStream = connection.getErrorStream();
}
// write the output to the console
System.out.println(toString(inputStream));
}
/**
* Retrieves the authentication token for the provided set of credentials.
* @return the authorization token that can be used to access authenticated
* Google Base data API feeds
*/
public String authenticate() {
// create the login request
String postOutput = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(AUTHENTICATION_URL);
postOutput = makeLoginRequest(url);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Could not connect to authentication server: "
+ e.toString());
System.exit(1);
}
// Parse the result of the login request. If everything went fine, the
// response will look like
// HTTP/1.0 200 OK
// Server: GFE/1.3
// Content-Type: text/plain
// SID=DQAAAGgA...7Zg8CTN
// LSID=DQAAAGsA...lk8BBbG
// Auth=DQAAAGgA...dk3fA5N
// so all we need to do is look for "Auth" and get the token that comes after it
StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(postOutput, "=\n ");
String token = null;
while (tokenizer.hasMoreElements()) {
if (tokenizer.nextToken().equals("Auth")) {
if (tokenizer.hasMoreElements()) {
token = tokenizer.nextToken();
}
break;
}
}
if (token == null) {
System.out.println("Authentication error. Response from server:\n" + postOutput);
System.exit(1);
}
return token;
}
/**
* Makes a HTTP POST request to the provided {@code url} given the provided
* {@code parameters}. It returns the output from the POST handler as a
* String object.
*
* @param url the URL to post the request
* @return the output from the handler
* @throws IOException if an I/O exception occurs while
* creating/writing/reading the request
*/
private String makeLoginRequest(URL url)
throws IOException {
// Create a login request. A login request is a POST request that looks like
// POST /accounts/ClientLogin HTTP/1.0
// Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
// [email protected]&Passwd=north23AZ&service=gbase&source=Insert Example
// Open connection
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// Set properties of the connection
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
urlConnection.setDoInput(true);
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
// Form the POST parameters
StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
content.append("Email=").append(URLEncoder.encode(EMAIL, "UTF-8"));
content.append("&Passwd=").append(URLEncoder.encode(PASSWORD, "UTF-8"));
content.append("&source=").append(URLEncoder.encode("Repace service example", "UTF-8"));
content.append("&service=").append(URLEncoder.encode("gbase", "UTF-8"));
OutputStream outputStream = urlConnection.getOutputStream();
outputStream.write(content.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"));
outputStream.close();
// Retrieve the output
int responseCode = urlConnection.getResponseCode();
InputStream inputStream;
if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
} else {
inputStream = urlConnection.getErrorStream();
}
return toString(inputStream);
}
/**
* Writes the content of the input stream to a <code>String<code>.
*/
private String toString(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
String string;
StringBuilder outputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
if (inputStream != null) {
BufferedReader reader =
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream, "UTF-8"));
while (null != (string = reader.readLine())) {
outputBuilder.append(string).append('\n');
}
}
return outputBuilder.toString();
}
}
如果email和密碼正確，驗證通過，則在你的email帳號下的Gbase下添加了一條item，這個item需要大概1天的時間能夠通過google搜索。
QueryExample3.java代碼：
/* Copyright (c) 2006 Google Inc.
*
* 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.
*/
package cn.edu.xidian;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
import java.net.MalformedURLException;
import java.net.URL;
import java.net.URLEncoder;
import java.util.StringTokenizer;
/**
* Display all items of a specific customer.
*/
public class QueryExample3 {
/**
* URL of the authenticated customer feed.
*/
private static final String ITEMS_FEED = "http://base.google.com/base/feeds/items/2139682888944988653";
/**
* URL used for authenticating and obtaining an authentication token.
* More details about how it works:
* <code>http://code.google.com/apis/accounts/AuthForInstalledApps.html<code>
*/
private static final String AUTHENTICATION_URL = "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin";
/**
* Fill in your Google Account email here.
*/
private static final String EMAIL = "[email protected]";
/**
* Fill in your Google Account password here.
*/
private static final String PASSWORD = "yourpassword";
/**
* Create a <code>QueryExample3</code> instance and call
* <code>displayMyItems</code>, which displays all items that belong to the
* currently authenticated user.
*/
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
QueryExample3 queryExample = new QueryExample3();
String token = queryExample.authenticate();
queryExample.displayMyItems(token);
}
/**
* Retrieves the authentication token for the provided set of credentials.
* @return the authorization token that can be used to access authenticated
* Google Base data API feeds
*/
public String authenticate() {
// create the login request
String postOutput = null;
try {
URL url = new URL(AUTHENTICATION_URL);
postOutput = makeLoginRequest(url);
} catch (IOException e) {
System.out.println("Could not connect to authentication server: "
+ e.toString());
System.exit(1);
}
// Parse the result of the login request. If everything went fine, the
// response will look like
// HTTP/1.0 200 OK
// Server: GFE/1.3
// Content-Type: text/plain
// SID=DQAAAGgA...7Zg8CTN
// LSID=DQAAAGsA...lk8BBbG
// Auth=DQAAAGgA...dk3fA5N
// so all we need to do is look for "Auth" and get the token that comes after it
StringTokenizer tokenizer = new StringTokenizer(postOutput, "=\n ");
String token = null;
while (tokenizer.hasMoreElements()) {
if (tokenizer.nextToken().equals("Auth")) {
if (tokenizer.hasMoreElements()) {
token = tokenizer.nextToken();
}
break;
}
}
if (token == null) {
System.out.println("Authentication error. Response from server:\n" + postOutput);
System.exit(1);
}
return token;
}
/**
* Displays the "items" feed, that is the feed that contains the items that
* belong to the currently authenticated user.
*
* @param token the authorization token, as returned by
* <code>authenticate<code>
* @throws IOException if an IOException occurs while creating/reading the
* request
*/
public void displayMyItems(String token) throws MalformedURLException, IOException {
HttpURLConnection connection = (HttpURLConnection)(new URL(ITEMS_FEED)).openConnection() ;
// Set properties of the connection
connection.setRequestMethod("GET");
connection.setRequestProperty("Authorization", "GoogleLogin auth=" + token);
int responseCode = connection.getResponseCode();
InputStream inputStream;
if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
inputStream = connection.getInputStream();
} else {
inputStream = connection.getErrorStream();
}
System.out.println(toString(inputStream));
}
/**
* Makes a HTTP POST request to the provided {@code url} given the provided
* {@code parameters}. It returns the output from the POST handler as a
* String object.
*
* @param url the URL to post the request
* @return the output from the Google Accounts server, as string
* @throws IOException if an I/O exception occurs while
* creating/writing/reading the request
*/
private String makeLoginRequest(URL url)
throws IOException {
// Create a login request. A login request is a POST request that looks like
// POST /accounts/ClientLogin HTTP/1.0
// Content-type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
// [email protected]&Passwd=north23AZ&service=gbase&source=Insert Example
// Open connection
HttpURLConnection urlConnection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
// Set properties of the connection
urlConnection.setRequestMethod("POST");
urlConnection.setDoInput(true);
urlConnection.setDoOutput(true);
urlConnection.setUseCaches(false);
urlConnection.setRequestProperty("Content-Type",
"application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
// Form the POST parameters
StringBuilder content = new StringBuilder();
content.append("Email=").append(URLEncoder.encode(EMAIL, "UTF-8"));
content.append("&Passwd=").append(URLEncoder.encode(PASSWORD, "UTF-8"));
content.append("&service=").append(URLEncoder.encode("gbase", "UTF-8"));
content.append("&source=").append(URLEncoder.encode("Repace service example", "UTF-8"));
OutputStream outputStream = urlConnection.getOutputStream();
outputStream.write(content.toString().getBytes("UTF-8"));
outputStream.close();
// Retrieve the output
int responseCode = urlConnection.getResponseCode();
InputStream inputStream;
if (responseCode == HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
inputStream = urlConnection.getInputStream();
} else {
inputStream = urlConnection.getErrorStream();
}
return toString(inputStream);
}
/**
* Writes the content of the input stream to a <code>String<code>.
*/
private String toString(InputStream inputStream) throws IOException {
String string;
StringBuilder outputBuilder = new StringBuilder();
if (inputStream != null) {
BufferedReader reader =
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(inputStream));
while (null != (string = reader.readLine())) {
outputBuilder.append(string).append('\n');
}
}
return outputBuilder.toString();
}
}
改代碼的執行結果如下：
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gm='http://base.google.com/ns-metadata/1.0' xmlns:g='http://base.google.com/ns/1.0' xmlns:batch='http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch'><id>http://www.google.com/base/feeds/items/2139682888944988653</id><published>2009-08-01T12:55:09.000Z</published><updated>2009-08-01T12:55:09.000Z</updated><category scheme='http://base.google.com/categories/itemtypes' term='repaceService'/><title type='text'>EchoService_ID</title><content type='html'>08d8440b82554bad9a7a5ad9a1487</content><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://base.google.com/base/a/6380400/D2139682888944988653'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.google.com/base/feeds/items/2139682888944988653'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.google.com/base/feeds/items/2139682888944988653'/><author><name>Panpan Zhan</name><email>[email protected]</email></author><g:target_country type='text'>US</g:target_country><g:expiration_date type='dateTime'>2038-01-19T03:14:07Z</g:expiration_date><g:customer_id type='int'>6380400</g:customer_id><g:item_language type='text'>en</g:item_language><g:item_type type='text'>repaceService</g:item_type><gd:feedLink xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' rel='media' href='http://www.google.com/base/feeds/items/2139682888944988653/media' countHint='0'/></entry>
這樣就完成了一些簡單的Gbase操作的例子。