How can I format a Google Sheets spreadsheet cell with the API?

Question

My application generates a table of data and creates a new spreadsheet document in a user\'s Google Drive. How can I add formatting (color, font-weight, width, etc.) to indi

Answer 1

Smartsheet utilizes the ability of the Google API to import an Excel file. The code is roughly along these lines:

DocsService client = new DocsService();
client.setOAuthCredentials();

DocumentListEntry newEntry = new SpreadsheetEntry();
newEntry.setMediaSource(new MediaByteArraySource(, DocumentListEntry.MediaType.XLS.getMimeType()));
newEntry.setTitle(new PlainTextConstruct());

DocumentListEntry insertedEntry = client.insert(new URL("https://docs.google.com/feeds/default/private/full/"), newEntry);

// This is your URL to the new doc
String docUrl = insertedEntry.getDocumentLink().getHref();

We already had the ability to export a Smartsheet to an Excel file with formatting via Apache POI. Adding export to a Google Spreadsheet was quite simple for us to implement and it provided some additional functionality beyond what you could do via the API.

Sorry for the delayed response - just happened across this question.