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Reading labels works but reading messages results in ACCESS_TOKEN_SCOPE_INSUFFICIENT

I have created one poc using Gmail API which read all email and print on console. I have take refrence from Gmail api Java quickstart.
I have follows all the steps like create project, Gmail API enable, OAuth credentials in google cloud console
The problem is, when I run the code all the labels are printed successfully but I'm not able to read mail messages. Some an error are getting which are below:
> Task :GmailQuickstart.main()
Labels:
- CHAT
- SENT
- INBOX
- IMPORTANT
- TRASH
- DRAFT
- SPAM
- CATEGORY_FORUMS
- CATEGORY_UPDATES
- CATEGORY_PERSONAL
- CATEGORY_PROMOTIONS
- CATEGORY_SOCIAL
- STARRED
- UNREAD
Exception in thread "main" com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 403 Forbidden
GET https://gmail.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages
{
"code": 403,
"details": [
{
"#type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo",
"reason": "ACCESS_TOKEN_SCOPE_INSUFFICIENT"
}
],
"errors": [
{
"domain": "global",
"message": "Insufficient Permission",
"reason": "insufficientPermissions"
}
],
"message": "Request had insufficient authentication scopes.",
"status": "PERMISSION_DENIED"
}
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException.from(GoogleJsonResponseException.java:146)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:118)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:37)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest$1.interceptResponse(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:439)
at com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequest.execute(HttpRequest.java:1111)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:525)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:466)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.execute(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:576)
at GmailQuickstart.main(GmailQuickstart.java:80)
> Task :GmailQuickstart.main() FAILED
Execution failed for task ':GmailQuickstart.main()'.
> Process 'command '/home/bhautik/Downloads/jdk-11.0.15.1_linux-x64_bin/data/usr/lib/jvm/jdk-11/bin/java'' finished with non-zero exit value 1
* Try:
> Run with --stacktrace option to get the stack trace.
> Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
> Run with --scan to get full insights.
And my code was below:
import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential;
import com.google.api.client.extensions.java6.auth.oauth2.AuthorizationCodeInstalledApp;
import com.google.api.client.extensions.jetty.auth.oauth2.LocalServerReceiver;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleClientSecrets;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.javanet.GoogleNetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.gson.GsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.util.store.FileDataStoreFactory;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.Gmail;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.GmailScopes;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.model.Label;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.model.ListLabelsResponse;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.model.ListMessagesResponse;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.model.Message;
import java.io.FileNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.List;
/* class to demonstrate use of Gmail list labels API */
public class GmailQuickstart {
private static final String APPLICATION_NAME = "Gmail API Java Quickstart";
private static final JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = GsonFactory.getDefaultInstance();
private static final String TOKENS_DIRECTORY_PATH = "tokens";
private static final List<String> SCOPES = Collections.singletonList(GmailScopes.GMAIL_LABELS);
private static final String CREDENTIALS_FILE_PATH = "/credentials.json";
private static final String USER_ID = "me";
private static Credential getCredentials(final NetHttpTransport HTTP_TRANSPORT)
throws IOException {
// Load client secrets.
InputStream in = GmailQuickstart.class.getResourceAsStream(CREDENTIALS_FILE_PATH);
if (in == null) {
throw new FileNotFoundException("Resource not found: " + CREDENTIALS_FILE_PATH);
}
GoogleClientSecrets clientSecrets =
GoogleClientSecrets.load(JSON_FACTORY, new InputStreamReader(in));
// Build flow and trigger user authorization request.
GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow flow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder(
HTTP_TRANSPORT, JSON_FACTORY, clientSecrets, SCOPES)
.setDataStoreFactory(new FileDataStoreFactory(new java.io.File(TOKENS_DIRECTORY_PATH)))
.setAccessType("offline")
.build();
LocalServerReceiver receiver = new LocalServerReceiver.Builder().setPort(8888).build();
Credential credential = new AuthorizationCodeInstalledApp(flow, receiver).authorize("user");
//returns an authorized Credential object.
return credential;
}
public static void main(String... args) throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
// Build a new authorized API client service.
final NetHttpTransport HTTP_TRANSPORT = GoogleNetHttpTransport.newTrustedTransport();
Gmail service = new Gmail.Builder(HTTP_TRANSPORT, JSON_FACTORY, getCredentials(HTTP_TRANSPORT))
.setApplicationName(APPLICATION_NAME)
.build();
// Print the labels in the user's account.
String user = "me";
ListLabelsResponse listResponse = service.users().labels().list(user).execute();
List<Label> labels = listResponse.getLabels();
if (labels.isEmpty()) {
System.out.println("No labels found.");
} else {
System.out.println("Labels:");
for (Label label : labels) {
System.out.printf("- %s\n", label.getName());
}
}
// Print the message
ListMessagesResponse response = service.users().messages().list(USER_ID).execute();
// List<Message> messages = response.getMessages();
List<Message> messages = new ArrayList<Message>();
while (response.getMessages() != null) {
messages.addAll(response.getMessages());
if (response.getNextPageToken() != null) {
String pageToken = response.getNextPageToken();
response = service.users().messages().list(USER_ID).setPageToken(pageToken).execute();
} else {
break;
}
}
for (Message message : messages) {
System.out.println(message.getId());
System.out.println(message.getPayload());
Message test = service.users().messages().get("me", message.getId()).execute();
System.out.println(test.getSnippet());
}
}
}

ACCESS_TOKEN_SCOPE_INSUFFICIENT is a very common error message. It comes from copying the example without understanding what its doing. This is googles fault for not explaining things better.
The quick start uses the lables.list method. This method runs on users private data so you used Oauth2 to request permission of the user to access their data.
The method can run with any of the following permissions being requested
Best practice is to only request the permissions you need. So the code is asking for the GmailScopes.GMAIL_LABELS permission which will only give you access to see the lables
Now to read a users messages the messges.listmethod you need to request permission with one of the following scopes
as you can see the label scope is not there. Thats because you need a higher level of permissions to access this data..
Solution:
Change the scope in your code to request one of the scopes needed for messgaes.list.
Then you need to reauthorize your application. YOu can do this in a few was.
delete the file found in TOKENS_DIRECTORY_PATH
change .authorize("user"); the text passed here to something else.
When you run your app again it should prompt you for authorization again.

I would comment but I have too few rep.
I guess you didn't properly set up the permissions of your access token. The error message suggessts, that you need a specific set of permissions to access the ressource

Need help on Google API Calendar V3 Java and OAUTH2

i'm trying to handle my Google Agenda by using the Google Calendar APi V3( Java ).
However, i'm quite new to this and to OAUTH2 .. then i've searched for examples and i found one here :
Google Calendar API V3 Java: Unable to use 'primary' for Calendars:get
Here is the code :
import java.io.IOException;
import java.util.Collections;
import java.util.Scanner;
import java.util.Set;
import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.AuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.AuthorizationCodeRequestUrl;
import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.AuthorizationCodeTokenRequest;
import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.TokenResponse;
import com.google.api.client.extensions.auth.helpers.Credential;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpRequestInitializer;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.jackson2.JacksonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.calendar.Calendar;
import com.google.api.services.calendar.Calendar.CalendarList;
import com.google.api.services.calendar.CalendarScopes;
import com.google.api.services.calendar.model.CalendarListEntry;
public class App {
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
//Two globals that will be used in each step.
HttpTransport httpTransport = new NetHttpTransport();
JsonFactory jsonFactory = new JacksonFactory();
//Create the authorization code flow manager
Set<String> scope = Collections.singleton(CalendarScopes.CALENDAR);
String clientId = "xxxxxx.apps.googleusercontent.com";
String clientSecret = "xxxxxxxxxxx";
//Use a factory pattern to create the code flow
AuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder codeFlowBuilder =
new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder(
httpTransport,
jsonFactory,
clientId,
clientSecret,
scope
);
AuthorizationCodeFlow codeFlow = codeFlowBuilder.build();
//set the code flow to use a dummy user
//in a servlet, this could be the session id
String userId = "ipeech";
//"redirect" to the authentication url
String redirectUri = "https://www.example.com/oauth2callback";
AuthorizationCodeRequestUrl authorizationUrl = codeFlow.newAuthorizationUrl();
authorizationUrl.setRedirectUri(redirectUri);
System.out.println("Go to the following address:");
System.out.println(authorizationUrl);
//use the code that is returned as a url parameter
//to request an authorization token
System.out.println("What is the 'code' url parameter?");
String code = new Scanner(System.in).nextLine();
AuthorizationCodeTokenRequest tokenRequest = codeFlow.newTokenRequest(code);
tokenRequest.setRedirectUri(redirectUri);
TokenResponse tokenResponse = tokenRequest.execute();
//Now, with the token and user id, we have credentials
com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential credential = codeFlow.createAndStoreCredential(tokenResponse, userId);
//Credentials may be used to initialize http requests
HttpRequestInitializer initializer = credential;
//and thus are used to initialize the calendar service
Calendar.Builder serviceBuilder = new Calendar.Builder(
httpTransport, jsonFactory, initializer);
serviceBuilder.setApplicationName("Example");
Calendar calendar = serviceBuilder.build();
//get some data
String calendarID = "xxxxxxxxxxx";
getCalendarListSummary(calendarID,calendar);
getAllCalendarListSummary(calendar);
//getCalendarSummary(calendarID,calendar);
}
public static void getCalendarListSummary(String calendarID, Calendar calendar) throws IOException{
CalendarListEntry calendarListEntry = calendar.calendarList().get(calendarID).execute();
System.out.println(calendarListEntry.getSummary());
}
public static void getAllCalendarListSummary (Calendar calendar) throws IOException{
Calendar.CalendarList.List listRequest = calendar.calendarList().list();
com.google.api.services.calendar.model.CalendarList feed = listRequest.execute();
for(CalendarListEntry entry:feed.getItems()){
System.out.println("ID: " + entry.getId());
System.out.println("Summary: " + entry.getSummary());
}
}
When i launch the programm, it asks me to give the authorization code ("What is the 'code' url parameter?") but i don't know where to find it .. Any ideas ?

In this example, there is a part that says "Go to the following address:" you have to copy that url, paste it in the browser and then you will receive the authorization code. Copy that code and paste it after "What is the 'code' url parameter?" and press "Enter" so the program can continue.
This is a basic example and that why the OAuth 2 flow is done that way.
Here is a complete example of a Google calendar java program. I would suggest to first understand how OAuth 2 works, how to create projects in the Developer console and how to create credentials for those projects. Then it would be easier to understand and use the complete example.

GmailApiQuickstart -

I am embarrassed that I'm simply failing with an example piece of code, but I'll blame it on the fact that it is late...
I have taken a copy and paste of: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/quickstart-java
and downloaded the client libraries: https://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client/
and https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/java/apis/gmail/v1
When I run the sample, I get the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.IllegalArgumentException
at com.google.api.client.repackaged.com.google.common.base.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:76)
at com.google.api.client.util.Preconditions.checkArgument(Preconditions.java:37)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleClientSecrets.getDetails(GoogleClientSecrets.java:82)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow$Builder.<init>(GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.java:195)
at com.emailreply.musterion.GmailApiQuickstart.main(GmailApiQuickstart.java:40)
Googling, I can't find a simple answer, so am assuming stupidity or a library missing/incorrect.
The libraries as I have them are:
/libs/commons-logging-1.1.1.jar
/libs/google-api-client-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-api-client-android-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-api-client-appengine-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-api-client-gson-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-api-client-jackson2-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-api-client-java6-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-api-client-servlet-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-http-client-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-http-client-android-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-http-client-appengine-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-http-client-gson-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-http-client-jackson2-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-http-client-jdo-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-oauth-client-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-oauth-client-appengine-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-oauth-client-java6-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-oauth-client-jetty-1.19.0.jar
/libs/google-oauth-client-servlet-1.19.0.jar
/libs/gson-2.1.jar
/libs/httpclient-4.0.1.jar
/libs/httpcore-4.0.1.jar
/libs/jackson-core-2.1.3.jar
/libs/jdo2-api-2.3-eb.jar
/libs/jetty-6.1.26.jar
/libs/jetty-util-6.1.26.jar
/libs/jsr305-1.3.9.jar
/libs/transaction-api-1.1.jar
google-api-services-gmail-v1-rev10-1.19.0.jar
The example mentioned above:
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.Arrays;
import java.util.List;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleClientSecrets;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredential;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleOAuthConstants;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleTokenResponse;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.jackson2.JacksonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.Gmail;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.model.ListThreadsResponse;
import com.google.api.services.gmail.model.Thread;
public class GmailApiQuickstart {
// Check https://developers.google.ciom/gmail/api/auth/scopes for all available scopes
private static final String SCOPE = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/gmail.readonly";
private static final String APP_NAME = "Gmail API Quickstart";
// Email address of the user, or "me" can be used to represent the currently authorized user.
private static final String USER = "me";
// Path to the client_secret.json file downloaded from the Developer Console
private static final String CLIENT_SECRET_PATH = "./client_secret.json";
public static void main (String [] args) throws IOException {
HttpTransport httpTransport = new NetHttpTransport();
JsonFactory jsonFactory = new JacksonFactory();
GoogleClientSecrets clientSecrets = GoogleClientSecrets.load(jsonFactory, new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(GmailApiQuickstart.class.getResourceAsStream(CLIENT_SECRET_PATH))));
// Allow user to authorize via url.
GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow flow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder(
httpTransport, jsonFactory, clientSecrets, Arrays.asList(SCOPE))
.setAccessType("online")
.setApprovalPrompt("auto").build();
String url = flow.newAuthorizationUrl().setRedirectUri(GoogleOAuthConstants.OOB_REDIRECT_URI).build();
System.out.println("Please open the following URL in your browser then type the authorization code:\n" + url);
// Read code entered by user.
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String code = br.readLine();
// Generate Credential using retrieved code.
GoogleTokenResponse response = flow.newTokenRequest(code)
.setRedirectUri(GoogleOAuthConstants.OOB_REDIRECT_URI).execute();
GoogleCredential credential = new GoogleCredential()
.setFromTokenResponse(response);
// Create a new authorized Gmail API client
Gmail service = new Gmail.Builder(httpTransport, jsonFactory, credential)
.setApplicationName(APP_NAME).build();
// Retrieve a page of Threads; max of 100 by default.
ListThreadsResponse threadsResponse = service.users().threads().list(USER).execute();
List<Thread> threads = threadsResponse.getThreads();
// Print ID of each Thread.
for (Thread thread : threads) {
System.out.println("Thread ID: " + thread.getId());
}
}
}
I replaced the reference to CLIENT_SECRET_PATH with:
new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(GmailApiQuickstart.class.getResourceAsStream(CLIENT_SECRET_PATH)))
for no other reason than to try something different. It does work and reads the file correctly.
Any ideas?

Right, after some more research (asking a colleague/genius), I found the problem. Basically the GoogleClientSecrets object was not being properly bound with the information from my client_secrets.json file. This meant that during authentication, objects were null resulting in the IllegalArgumentException.
So the original file which looked like this:
{
"private_key_id": "zzz",
"private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nxyz\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
"client_email": "1234#developer.gserviceaccount.com",
"client_id": "1wdfghyjmp.apps.googleusercontent.com",
"type": "service_account"
}
was edited to look like this:
{
"web" : {
"private_key_id": "zzz",
"private_key": "-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----\nxyz\n-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\n",
"client_email": "1234#developer.gserviceaccount.com",
"client_id": "1wdfghyjmp.apps.googleusercontent.com",
"type": "service_account"
}
}
This allowed me to progress through the code with authentication.
Hope this helps.

here is a working example of non-interactive auth for Google Non-interactive authorization with Google OAuth2
the problem is not in "web" tag in the client json, but rather in the fact that their example is for web authentication while their suggested way of generating credentials is for non-interactive "service account". they have multiple problems with their documentation.

Getting an Warningwhile uploading file to google drive using Java

I'm trying to upload file to my Google drive Account using Java. The file is uploaded but i'm getting an warning: WARNING: Application name is not set. Call Builder#setApplicationName.
Code is
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.Arrays;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredential;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleTokenResponse;
import com.google.api.client.http.FileContent;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.jackson2.JacksonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.drive.Drive;
import com.google.api.services.drive.DriveScopes;
import com.google.api.services.drive.model.File;
public class UploadFileGoogleDrive {
private static String CLIENT_ID = "*****";
private static String CLIENT_SECRET = "******";
private static String REDIRECT_URI = "****";
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException{
HttpTransport httpTransport = new NetHttpTransport();
JsonFactory jsonFactory = new JacksonFactory();
GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow flow = new GoogleAuthorizationCodeFlow.Builder(
httpTransport, jsonFactory, CLIENT_ID, CLIENT_SECRET, Arrays.asList(DriveScopes.DRIVE))
.setAccessType("online")
.setApprovalPrompt("auto").build();
String url = flow.newAuthorizationUrl().setRedirectUri(REDIRECT_URI).build();
System.out.println("Please open the following URL in your browser then type the authorization code:");
System.out.println(" " + url);
BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in));
String code = br.readLine();
GoogleTokenResponse response = flow.newTokenRequest(code).setRedirectUri(REDIRECT_URI).execute();
GoogleCredential credential = new GoogleCredential().setFromTokenResponse(response);
//Create a new authorized API client
Drive service = new Drive.Builder(httpTransport, jsonFactory, credential).build();
//Insert a file
File body = new File();
body.setTitle("My document");
body.setDescription("A test document");
body.setMimeType("text/plain");
java.io.File fileContent = new java.io.File("document.txt");
FileContent mediaContent = new FileContent("text/plain", fileContent);
File file = service.files().insert(body, mediaContent).execute();
System.out.println("File ID: " + file.getId());
}
}
The Output is
May 24, 2014 11:59:14 AM com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClient
WARNING: Application name is not set. Call Builder#setApplicationName.
File ID: 1Ze77mqHtKWDU3eVljATlHQ0U

The Google APIs Client Library for Java strongly encourages you to set an application name when constructing your clients, for use when troubleshooting requests against our server logs. You can see an example on how to set the application name in the Google Drive Java command line sample.

BigQuery and OAuth2

I'm trying to access Google BigQuery using Service Account approach. My code is as follows:
private static final HttpTransport HTTP_TRANSPORT = new NetHttpTransport();
private static final JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = new JacksonFactory();
GoogleCredential credentials = new GoogleCredential.Builder()
.setTransport(HTTP_TRANSPORT)
.setJsonFactory(JSON_FACTORY)
.setServiceAccountId("XXXXX#developer.gserviceaccount.com")
.setServiceAccountScopes(BigqueryScopes.BIGQUERY)
.setServiceAccountPrivateKeyFromP12File(
new File("PATH-TO-privatekey.p12"))
.build();
Bigquery bigquery = Bigquery.builder(HTTP_TRANSPORT, JSON_FACTORY).setHttpRequestInitializer(credentials)
.build();
com.google.api.services.bigquery.Bigquery.Datasets.List datasetRequest = bigquery.datasets().list(
"PROJECT_ID");
DatasetList datasetList = datasetRequest.execute();
if (datasetList.getDatasets() != null) {
java.util.List<Datasets> datasets = datasetList.getDatasets();
System.out.println("Available datasets\n----------------");
for (Datasets dataset : datasets) {
System.out.format("%s\n", dataset.getDatasetReference().getDatasetId());
}
}
But it throws the following exception:
Exception in thread "main" com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 401 Unauthorized
{
"code" : 401,
"errors" : [ {
"domain" : "global",
"location" : "Authorization",
"locationType" : "header",
"message" : "Authorization required",
"reason" : "required"
} ],
"message" : "Authorization required"
}
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException.from(GoogleJsonResponseException.java:159)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException.execute(GoogleJsonResponseException.java:187)
at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.GoogleClient.executeUnparsed(GoogleClient.java:115)
at com.google.api.client.http.json.JsonHttpRequest.executeUnparsed(JsonHttpRequest.java:112)
at com.google.api.services.bigquery.Bigquery$Datasets$List.execute(Bigquery.java:979)
The exception is fired on this line:
DatasetList datasetList = datasetRequest.execute();
I'm getting the account ID from Google's API console from the second line on the section that looks like this:
Client ID: XXXXX.apps.googleusercontent.com
Email address: XXXXX#developer.gserviceaccount.com
What am I missing?

Eureka! Both Eric's and Michael's code works well.
The error posted in the question can be reproduced by setting the time on the client machine incorrectly. Fortunately, it can be solved by setting the time on the client machine correctly.
Note: For what it's worth, I synchronized the time on a Windows 7 box using the "Update now" button in the "Internet Time Settings" dialog. I figured that should be pretty idiot-proof... but I guess I beat the system. It corrected the seconds but left the machine off by exactly one minute. The BigQuery call failed after that. It succeeded after I manually changed the time.

Our error handling code in the Java library needs to be improved a bit!
It looks like the signed JWT for requesting an OAuth access token is failing. You can see this by enabling the logs that #MichaelManoochehri mentioned above.
There's only a few things that I think could be causing this failure:
Invalid signature (using the wrong key)
Invalid e-mail address for the service account (I think that's been ruled out)
Invalid date/time stamp used for generating the signed blob (an issue date, and an expiration date)
Invalid scope (I think that's been ruled out)
You should check that your date/time is properly set on your server with the proper timezone -- sync'd to NTP. You can use time.gov to see the official US atomic clock time.

EDIT: The answer I gave below is relevant to using Google App Engine Service Accounts - leaving here for reference.
Double check that you have added your service account address to your project's team page as an owner.
I'd recommend using the AppIdentityCredential class to handle service account auth. Here's a small snippet that demonstrates this, and I'll add additional documentation about this on the BigQuery API developer page.
Also, make sure that you are using the latest version of the Google Java API client (as of today, it's version "v2-rev5-1.5.0-beta" here).
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.extensions.appengine.auth.oauth2.AppIdentityCredential;
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.json.JsonHttpRequest;
import com.google.api.client.http.json.JsonHttpRequestInitializer;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.jackson.JacksonFactory;
import com.google.api.services.bigquery.Bigquery;
import com.google.api.services.bigquery.BigqueryRequest;
#SuppressWarnings("serial")
public class Bigquery_service_accounts_demoServlet<TRANSPORT> extends HttpServlet {
// ENTER YOUR PROJECT ID HERE
private static final String PROJECT_ID = "";
private static final HttpTransport TRANSPORT = new NetHttpTransport();
private static final JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = new JacksonFactory();
private static final String BIGQUERY_SCOPE = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery";
AppIdentityCredential credential = new AppIdentityCredential(BIGQUERY_SCOPE);
Bigquery bigquery = Bigquery.builder(TRANSPORT,JSON_FACTORY)
.setHttpRequestInitializer(credential)
.setJsonHttpRequestInitializer(new JsonHttpRequestInitializer() {
public void initialize(JsonHttpRequest request) {
BigqueryRequest bigqueryRequest = (BigqueryRequest) request;
bigqueryRequest.setPrettyPrint(true);
}
}).build();
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws IOException {
resp.setContentType("text/plain");
resp.getWriter().println(bigquery.datasets()
.list(PROJECT_ID)
.execute().toString());
}
}

Here is a complete snippet for reference:
import com.google.api.client.http.HttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.http.javanet.NetHttpTransport;
import com.google.api.client.json.JsonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.json.jackson.JacksonFactory;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.auth.oauth2.GoogleCredential;
import com.google.api.services.bigquery.Bigquery;
import com.google.api.services.bigquery.Bigquery.Datasets;
import com.google.api.services.bigquery.model.DatasetList;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.security.GeneralSecurityException;
public class BigQueryJavaServiceAccount {
private static final String SCOPE = "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/bigquery";
private static final HttpTransport TRANSPORT = new NetHttpTransport();
private static final JsonFactory JSON_FACTORY = new JacksonFactory();
public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException, GeneralSecurityException {
GoogleCredential credential = new GoogleCredential.Builder().setTransport(TRANSPORT)
.setJsonFactory(JSON_FACTORY)
.setServiceAccountId("XXXXXXX#developer.gserviceaccount.com")
.setServiceAccountScopes(SCOPE)
.setServiceAccountPrivateKeyFromP12File(new File("my_file.p12"))
.build();
Bigquery bigquery = Bigquery.builder(TRANSPORT, JSON_FACTORY)
.setApplicationName("Google-BigQuery-App/1.0")
.setHttpRequestInitializer(credential).build();
Datasets.List datasetRequest = bigquery.datasets().list("publicdata");
DatasetList datasetList = datasetRequest.execute();
System.out.format("%s\n", datasetList.toPrettyString());
}