How Can I set Google Client options with this package?

[wammy21]

I am having a problem with my server, I am running different laravel installs on one machine, but it seems they all want to use /tmp/Google_Client/ and it has now become an issue since the different sites run under different users.

Anyway the fix to what I am encountering is this:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/17282894/a-client-error-occurred-could-not-create-storage-directory-tmp-google-client

Which is really just a matter of doing this:
$config = new Google_Config();
$config->setClassConfig('Google_Cache_File', array('directory' => '../tmp/cache'));
$client = new Google_Client($config);

Maybe add an option to set it via the config file or the .env?

[cedricziel]

Yep. Agreed. I think the app-local tmp path should suffice - would you care to contribute a pull request?

[cedricziel]

Reviewing the Google_Client we may be able to simply use

$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setCache(new Google_Cache_File('/path/to/shared/cache'));

On the long run it might be useful to implement some of the caching logic and set it dynamically to the most useful available cache backend. What do you think?

[wammy21]

Forgive me I've never contributed on github before but I will make an attempt :)

As far as your other comment, I think it should be an option on the driver config, perhaps 'cache_path' and default it to storage_path('framework/cache') or override via .env GCS_CACHE_PATH ?

[cedricziel]

Exactly what I meant - maybe with the addition of GCS_CACHE_TYPE defaulting to 'file', resulting in Google_Cache_File instantiated.

I'll happily review your contribution - no worries about that :)

[emilv]

I'm not a fan of file caching. It won't solve wammy21's permission problems either since Google_Client will continue setting very restrictive permissions.

Would it not be better to make everything about the Google_Client configurable so we can choose our own cache type?

[cedricziel]

What about simply wrapping the instance into the native flysystem cache decorator?

https://flysystem.thephpleague.com/caching/

[emilv]

I think that's another kind of caching. The CachedAdapter seems to cache calls between the Flysystem adapter and the user; it is not a generic cache implementation that you can inject into the Google_Client itself. This issue is about configuring the Google_Client which requires a cache implementation adhering to their own interface so they can store auth tokens.

[wammy21]

@cedricziel I have finally been able to get around to doing this - please see pull request.