'Consent is required to transfer ownership of a file to another user [Google Drive API]

I have a Google Sheets file shared with 1 user - owner (Gmail account) and 2nd user - writer (google service account like @iam.gserviceaccount.com).

I use this function to copy a table from user 1 by user 2 and make the owner of copied file user 1 again:

$ownerPermission = new Google_Service_Drive_Permission([
'type'         => 'user', 
'role'         => 'owner',
'emailAddress' => '[email protected]'
]);
$requestOwnership = $service->permissions->create($newfileId, $ownerPermission, ['fields' => 'id', 'transferOwnership' => 'true']);

And all works well until yesterday! Now Gooogle Drive API returns error: Consent is required to transfer ownership of a file to another user

How to fix it?

phpgoogle-apigoogle-drive-apigoogle-oauthgoogle-api-php-client


Solution 1:[1]

This seems to be a recent change to the google API. See also https://developers.google.com/drive/api/guides/manage-sharing

I haven't tried this, but it suggests that you should replace transferOwnership=true with role=writer and pendingOwner=true, and then separately update the permissions as [email protected] with role=owner. I don't know how you do that second step from a gmail.com account though.

Solution 2:[2]

This seems to be working as expected as according to this Issue Tracker issue here:

Following up here, this is the expected behavior as currently Drive does not support the changing of the ownership for items which are owned by gmail.com accounts.

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Solution 1 Ian McCulloch
Solution 2

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