Getting the Google Client to work in Lumen - php

Question

I am trying to get the google api client for php to work in Lumen, however trying to create a client results in my api to give a 'Oops, something went wrong' error with no further useful information.
I think it is something to do with the way im trying to import the google api client into Lumen, i used composer to install it. But i am not sure if i am using the right thing for Lumen. If i change my require_once it would state that it could not find the 'autoload.php' in the current path. I've also tried the composer update -vvv
The Google folder is present in my vendor folder, and the composer.json also has a entry for the google/apiclient
"require": {
"php": ">=7.1.3",
"google/apiclient": "2.0",
"laravel/lumen-framework": "5.8.*"
},
<?php
namespace App\Http\Controllers;
require_once dirname(__DIR__).'\..\..\vendor\autoload.php';
use App\Author;
use Illuminate\Http\Request;
class AccessController extends Controller
{
private function getToken()
{
$credentialsFilePath = 'service_account.json';
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setAuthConfig($credentialsFilePath);
$client->addScope('https://googleapis.com/auth/analytics.readonly');
$client->setApplicationName("GoogleAnalytics");
$client->refreshTokenWithAssertion();
$token = $client->getAccessToken();
$accessToken = $token['access_token'];
return $accessToken;
}
public function showAccess()
{
$at = getToken();
return response('Token: ');
}
}
As you can see im trying to get the service account access token from a json that is saved at the server (no problems). but whenever the line $client = new Google_Client();
is called, i get the 'woops, something went wrong' error from Lumen

Answer 1

It appears i forgot the use Google_Client; Pretty simple but something i completely overlooked.