Google Groups policy

A Google Groups policy contains the connection details that are used by a Google Groups Request node when you connect it to Google Groups.

You can use a Google Groups Request node in a message flow to connect IBM® App Connect Enterprise to Google Groups and issue requests to perform actions on objects such as groups, group members, and group aliases. The Google Groups policy controls, at run time, access to the Google Groups application.

The Google Groups policy is created when you configure a connection between a Google Groups Request node and Google Groups by using the Connector Discovery wizard. During the process of discovery, account credentials are stored in the vault and connection details are stored in a policy. The policy is created with a type of Google Groups, and the name of the policy is returned to the node and specified in the Connection tab, in the format {policyProjectName}:policyName.

You can also create, update, or delete a Google Groups policy by using the Manage Discovery Connector Policies and Credentials wizard, which you can access by right-clicking the policy project in the IBM App Connect Enterprise Toolkit and then clicking New > Discovery Connector policies and credentials.

You must deploy this policy before message flows that use the policy are started. If you redeploy a Google Groups policy, all message flows that are using the policy are stopped and restarted.

For more information about using Google Groups policies, see Using Google Groups with IBM App Connect Enterprise.

Table 1. Properties of the Google Groups policy
Property	Property name in .policyxml file	Description of properties
Google Groups Application Type	applicationType	This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value `online`.
Google Groups Application Version	applicationVersion	This property is reserved for future use and must be set to the value `v1`.
Google Groups Authentication method	authenticationMethod	This property specifies the type of authentication that is used for the connection between IBM App Connect Enterprise and Google Groups. This property is reserved for future use and must be set to `BASIC_OAUTH` or `BASIC_API_KEY`.
Credential Name	credentialName	The specified credential can be defined during connector discovery and stored in the vault. Alternatively, you can specify an existing credential that was configured by using the mqsicredentials command or the server.conf.yaml file, or loaded through an external credential provider.