Google Apps Calendar Resource API v1 (Atom/OAuth 1.0) likely lifespan?

Question

I work with a Google Apps for Education domain and have been asked to write an application that maintains some Google Calendar resources and permissions thereof.

I am aware that Google has deprecated support for OAuth 1.0/1.0a and is moving away from Atom based services to JSON based services.

It therefore concerns me that the Google Apps Calendar Resource API is currently old style Atom/OAuth 1.0. I'm loathed to write an application using Atom/OAuth 1.0 if it is likely it will become obsolete within months. I'm guessing the API is currently being rewritten in the JSON/OAuth 2.0 style?

If possible could somebody tell me the likely time-scale for the rewrite? (or alternative solutions I could consider).

Glaze

Answer 1

To answer my own question, in relation to the likely lifespan of the API (apologies for the legalese). I have discovered that:

The Google Apps Calendar Resource API v1 is one of the Google Apps Admin APIs subject to the Google's deprecation policy. The Google deprecation policy states that Google will use commercially reasonable efforts to continue to operate this API without changes until 20th April 2015, unless (as Google determines in its reasonable good faith judgment):

• required by law or third party relationship (including if there is a change in applicable law or relationship), or
• doing so could create a security risk or substantial economic or material technical burden.

After 20th April 2015, the Deprecation Policy will not apply.

Glaze