创建新的共享云端硬盘

Question

When I run the code below, which is taken from: https://developers.google.com/drive/api/v3/manage-shareddrives#python

# Create a new drive
        test_drive_metadata = {'name': 'Test Drive'}
        request_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
        test_drive = self.service.drives().create(
            body=test_drive_metadata,
            requestId=request_id,
            fields='id'
        ).execute()

I get "The user does not have sufficient permissions for this file." This does not happen if I create files, if I list shared drives or anything else. There are no other required scopes other than [' https://www.googleapis.com/auth/drive '].

It should be noted that I am using a service account. Are service accounts not allowed to create shared drives? This is not documented anywhere as far as I am aware if this is the case.

Answer 1

There doesn't seem to be any explicit documentation regarding this limitation, but considering that Service Accounts (without using DWD and impersonation) are supposed to manage application data, and not user data , it makes sense that they cannot be used to manage data that is shared with regular users.

Also, the use of Service Accounts to manage shared documents seems to be advised against, according to the official documentation :

Using the service account as a common owner to create many shared documents can have severe performance implications.

On the other hand, since Service Accounts have certain limitations compared to regular accounts (for example, Event creation in Calendar), this could probably be one of these limitations.

In any case, in order to make sure that's the case, I'd suggest you to report this behaviour in this Issue Tracker component .

Reference:

• Drive API: Perform G Suite Domain-Wide Delegation of Authority
• Using OAuth 2.0 for Server to Server Applications