Ferdi: Searching for a user doesnt work in Google Chat

[mahadevans87]

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Describe the bug

Searching for a user doesn't work in Google chat
Search for a user who is not in the cached list of Google Chat.
To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to Google Chat and search for a user using the search bar on the top left panel
2. Type in a few words and observe that no results are returned

Expected behavior

Matching users should be listed in the dropdown.

Screenshots
Look for the autocomplete requests failing in the console

Here is a response of the autocomplete request:
{ "error": { "code": 401, "message": "Request had invalid authentication credentials. Expected OAuth 2 access token, login cookie or other valid authentication credential. See https://developers.google.com/identity/sign-in/web/devconsole-project.", "status": "UNAUTHENTICATED" } }
Desktop:

• OS: [Windows 10]
• Ferdi Version [e.g. 5.4.3]
• Server Used: [e.g. https://api.getferdi.com]

[kytwb]

@mahadevans87 is it still happening in 5.5.0-gm?

[mahadevans87]

@mahadevans87 is it still happening in 5.5.0-gm?

I can confirm this does not work in the latest 5.5.0-gm as well as building from the develop branch.

[mahadevans87]

Have made some progress on this. Hopefully the fix should resolve all of the Google related issues

[sampathBlam]

@kytwb : Created a PR each in both ferdi as well as the recipe repo. Please review the same.