Advance Google Sheets plugin to the stable state

Overview

We could do something like this:

• Stream(url) - use Export API [implemented]
• Stream(url, api_key) - use Sheet API
• Stream(url, token_creds) - use Sheet API with private docs access

Also consider typed/force_strings flag (could be useful also for excel, json etc).

PS. Get typed data without API Key may be will be possible after this - https://github.com/burnash/gspread/issues/175 (but we don’t really want to use non-official drivers)

Tasks

• allow using credentials
• rebase testing on vcr.py?
• TBD

[brew]

ref accessing private Google Sheets:

Instead of tabulator providing the authentication logic itself, how about tabulator modules that make external requests can accept an http object as a parameter, and it’s used to make the request. That way, the user of the module can pass in an http object that is setup correctly for authentication for their specific requirements.

I have some util code for the Measure project that returns an authenticated http object, that is subsequently used to make an API request, without requiring the Service API lib.

google_utils. get_authorized_http_object()

used in code here

[akariv]

Based on the info above, I would go with the Stream API implementation route.