JSON key is missing the type field

Question

I try to connect to my Google Calendar using the Google API for PHP, version 2.2.0. Until now I do not succeed in connecting to my calendar and that is very frustrating.

At this moment I receive the following fatal error:

Fatal error: Uncaught InvalidArgumentException: json key is missing the type field in /home/servi471/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/vendor/google/auth/src/CredentialsLoader.php:123 Stack trace: #0 /home/servi471/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/vendor/google/auth/src/ApplicationDefaultCredentials.php(154): Google\Auth\CredentialsLoader::makeCredentials('https://www.goo...', Array) #1 /home/servi471/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/src/Google/Client.php(1078): Google\Auth\ApplicationDefaultCredentials::getCredentials('https://www.goo...') #2 /home/servi471/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/src/Google/Client.php(365): Google_Client->createApplicationDefaultCredentials() #3 /home/servi471/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/src/Google/Client.php(786): Google_Client->authorize() #4 /home/servi471/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/src/Google/Service/Resource.php(232): Google_C in /home/servi471/public_html/wp-content/plugins/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/vendor/google/auth/src/CredentialsLoader.php on line 123

I use this code:

require_once WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/vendor/autoload.php';
require_once WP_PLUGIN_DIR . '/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/src/Google/Client.php';
require_once WP_PLUGIN_DIR . "/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/vendor/google/apiclient-services/src/Google/Service/Calendar/Resource/CalendarList.php";
require_once WP_PLUGIN_DIR . "/google-api-php-client-2.2.0/vendor/google/apiclient-services/src/Google/Service/Oauth2.php";


putenv('GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=' . dirname(__FILE__) . '/oauth-credentials.json');

$client = new Google_Client();
$redirect_uri = 'https://myredirect-uri';
$client->setRedirectUri($redirect_uri);

$client->setRedirectUri($redirect_uri);
$client->setClientId('myclient-di.apps.googleusercontent.com');
$client->setClientSecret('myclient-secret');
$client->setAccessType("offline");        // offline access
$client->setIncludeGrantedScopes(true);   // incremental auth
$client->addScope(Google_Service_Calendar::CALENDAR);

$user_to_impersonate = 'owner-of-agenda@gmail.com';
$client->setSubject($user_to_impersonate);
$client->setAuthConfig(GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS);

$client->useApplicationDefaultCredentials();

if (file_exists(CREDENTIALS_PATH)) {
    $token = file_get_contents(CREDENTIALS_PATH);
    echo "<h4>_Token</h4>";
    var_dump($token);
    $client->setAccessToken($token);
}
echo "<br><br>CLIENT";

$service = new Google_Service_Calendar($client);

$calendarList = $service->calendarList->listCalendarList();
var_dump($calendarList);

echo "<h4>End of example</h4>";

I see that an token is generated.

Could someone please assist me in making this connection?

Looks to me like the json blob in `/oauth-credentials.json` is missing a `type` field. Since you didn't include that file's content, it is hard to debug, but I would start by comparing that to what Google expects to find in it. — Alexander Morland, Oct 19 '17 at 12:17
The content of the file is directly from google, so I would think it should be okay. Could be that I did not configure the settings not okay ..... pffftt — Leon N, Oct 19 '17 at 12:29
Sorry, content of the file: {"web":{"client_id":"my-client-id","project_id":"my-project-id","auth_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/auth","token_uri":"https://accounts.google.com/o/oauth2/token","auth_provider_x509_cert_url":"https://www.googleapis.com/oauth2/v1/certs","client_secret":"my-client-secret","redirect_uris":["https://my-redirect-uri"],"javascript_origins":["https://my-website.nl"]}} — Leon N, Oct 19 '17 at 12:29
I solved it finally; the json-key-file did not contain the type field. But I removed some statements and went back to the minimum of data. Added also the statement: $client->setApprovalPrompt('force'); — Leon N, Oct 22 '17 at 21:35
@LeonN what you did is very unclear as solution because of "some statements and went back to the minimum of data." Very vague description of what you did to solve. — m3nda, Jun 27 '23 at 10:39

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Feb 21 '18 at 02:56

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I solved it, The JSON-key-file did not contain the type field. But I removed some statements and went back to the minimum of data. Added also the statement:

$client->setApprovalPrompt('force');

edited Feb 21 '18 at 02:56

answered Oct 22 '17 at 21:36

Leon N

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Maybe this is old and doesn't apply anymore ? I tried with this but still getting the same error. – m3nda Jun 27 '23 at 10:40

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 21 '20 at 09:13

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There was something you did not see. There is a dropdown Create Credentials click on that and you will see three options:

API Key
OAuth Client ID
Service Account Key

Choose service account key, select your project name and download the json file from there, put that json file in here, putenv('GOOGLE_APPLICATION_CREDENTIALS=SellerWizard.json');

edited Jan 21 '20 at 09:13

MartenCatcher

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answered Jan 21 '20 at 07:36

Suhail Mansoori

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 27 '23 at 12:29

I've got crazy today with this.

Case of mine, it was an older PHP client api for PHP7, which used to find client_id and secret_id in the file tokens.json.

It was not accepted by setClientId() methods, i mean, where accepted, but not used in the operations.

The solution for me has been to add both client_id and client_secret inside tokens.json.

This did not happend whe using other versions of the api.

JSON key is missing the type field

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