com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden

Question

I am trying to upload a text file to my Google Drive account. No matter what, I always encounter an com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden

Stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden
{
  "code" : 403,
  "errors" : [ {
    "domain" : "global",
    "message" : "Forbidden",
    "reason" : "forbidden"
  } ],
  "message" : "Forbidden"
}
    at com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException.from(GoogleJsonResponseException.java:145)
    at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:113)
    at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:40)
    at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:423)
    at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:343)
    at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.execute(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:460)
    at chatterjee.sandeep.javabase.miscellaneous.DriveCommandLine.main(DriveCommandLine.java:69)

Here is line 69 of DriveCommandLine.java

File file = service.files().insert(body, mediaContent).execute();

Complete Code:

import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredential;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleTokenResponse;
import com.google.api.client.http.FileContent;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.jackson2.JacksonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive;
import com.google.api.services.drive.DriveScopes;
import com.google.api.services.drive.model.File;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.Arrays;

public class DriveCommandLine {

    private static String CLIENT_ID = "CLIENT_ID";
    private static String CLIENT_SECRET = "CLIENT_SECRET";

    private static String REDIRECT_URI = "REDIRECT_URI";

    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException {
        HttpTransport httpTransport = new NetHttpTransport();
        JsonFactory jsonFactory = new JacksonFactory();

        GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow flow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder(
        httpTransport, jsonFactory, CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET,
        Arrays.asList(DriveScopes.DRIVE_FILE)).setAccessType("online")
        .setApprovalPrompt("auto").build();

        String url = flow.newAuthorizationUrl().setRedirectUri(REDIRECT_URI)
        .build();
        System.out
        .println("Please open the following URL in your browser then type the authorization code:");
        System.out.println("  " + url);
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
        String code = br.readLine();

        GoogleTokenResponse response = flow.newTokenRequest(code)
        .setRedirectUri(REDIRECT_URI).execute();
        GoogleCredential credential = new GoogleCredential()
        .setFromTokenResponse(response);

        // Create a new authorized API client
        Drive service = new Drive.Builder(httpTransport, jsonFactory,
        credential).build();

        // Insert a file
        File body = new File();
        body.setTitle("My document");
        body.setDescription("A test document");
        body.setMimeType("text/plain");

        java.io.File fileContent = new java.io.File(
        "/path/to/TextFile.txt");
        FileContent mediaContent = new FileContent("text/plain", fileContent);

        File file = service.files().insert(body, mediaContent).execute();
        System.out.println("File ID: " + file.getId());
    }
}

I have the following jars in my project build path:

commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
google-api-client-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-api-client-android-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-api-client-appengine-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-api-client-gson-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-api-client-jackson2-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-api-client-java6-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-api-client-servlet-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-api-services-drive-v1-rev123-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-http-client-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-http-client-android-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-http-client-appengine-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-http-client-gson-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-http-client-jackson2-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-http-client-jdo-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-oauth-client-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-oauth-client-appengine-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-oauth-client-java6-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-oauth-client-jetty-1.18.0-rc.jar
google-oauth-client-servlet-1.18.0-rc.jar
gson-2.1.jar
httpclient-4.0.3.jar
httpcore-4.0.1_1.jar
jackson-core-2.1.3.jar
jdo2-api-2.3-eb.jar
jetty-util-6.1.26.jar
jsr305-1.3.9.jar
transaction-api-1.1-rev-1.jar

At present I have two projects set up with Drive API enabled.

Now where do I properly set up the permissions to resolve this issue?

Also, what am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

I had the same issue, I did the following change and it resolved the issue

1) Added SheetsScopes.DRIVE to the scopes to be given in authorize()

private static final List<String> SCOPES =
            Arrays.asList(SheetsScopes.SPREADSHEETS,SheetsScopes.DRIVE);

2) Created a new directory, so that next time I run it, it will authenticate and save the credential to the newly created directory

private static final java.io.File DATA_STORE_DIR = new java.io.File(
        System.getProperty("user.home"), ".credentials/2/sheets.googleapis.com-java-quickstart.json");

Answer 2

This issue happened when you change SCOPE and proceed to work with the old token. Just remove StoredCredential file.Idea

Answer 3

After a long time searching, I found this answer hidden in the search engine:

Change the line where you define scopes to:

private static final List<String> SCOPES = Arrays.asList(GmailScopes.MAIL_GOOGLE_COM);

https://stackoverflow.com/a/38599382/1317559

Answer 4

I just had this problem and it is likely that you have created the credential file using a scope that does not allow inserting a file. Remove the credential file and re-run.