I am working on an Android application that uses a Google Spreadsheet as a database. The application should GET, APPEND and UPDATE values in a spreadsheet, using the Sheets API v4. The first two functions are working fine but I have difficulties updating a specific row. I need to find a row that has a specific value in it's first column ("Batch ID") and update all the cells in this row.
This is how my spreadsheet looks like.
Right now I am getting the row to be modified like this:
ValueRange response = this.mySheetsService.spreadsheets().
values().get(spreadsheetId, range).execute();
List<List<Object>> values = response.getValues();
String rangeToUpdate;
Log.i(TAG, "all values in range: " + values.toString());
int i = 0;
if (values != null) {
for (List row : values) {
i += 1;
if (row.get(0).equals(selectedBatchID)) {
Log.i(TAG, "IT'S A MATCH! i= " + i);
rangeToUpdate = "A" + (i + 1) + ":E" + (i + 1); //row to be updated
}
}
}
/*once I have the row that needs to be updated, I construct my new ValueRange requestbody and
*execute a values().update(spreadsheetId, rangeToUpdate , requestbody) request.
*/
This is actually working fine but I think it's an ugly solution and I am sure there is a better one out there.
I have read the Sheets API documentation and I got familiar with notions such as batchUpdateByDataFilter, DataFilterValueRange or DeveloperMetadata and I sense that I should use these features for what I'm trying to achieve but I couldn't put them together and I couldn't find any examples.
Can someone show me or help me understand how to use these Sheets V4 features?
Thank you.