Google URL Shortening API by ColdFusion

I was trying to use Google URL shortening API by using ColdFusion. I have written two ColdFusion function which will take Short/Long URL as input parameter then it will return a structure which would have been returned by Google contains both Short/Long URL for the passed value in input parameter.

	<cffunction name="shortenURLByGoogleAPI" access="public" returntype="Struct" hint="Takes long url as input parameter returns a struct containing both short and long url">
	<cfargument name="longURL" required="true" type="string" hint="Long URL value" />
	<cfset var httpReturnStruct = structNew() />
	<cfset var inputParameter = {"longUrl" = arguments.longURL } />
	<cfhttp url="https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url" method="post" result="httpReturnStruct">
	<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />
	<cfhttpparam type="body" value="#serializeJSON(inputParameter)#" />
	</cfhttp>
	<cfreturn deserializeJSON(httpReturnStruct.Filecontent.toString()) />
	</cffunction>
	<cffunction name="expandURLByGoogleAPI" access="public" returntype="Struct" hint="Takes short url as input parameter returns a struct containing both short and long url">
	<cfargument name="shortURL" required="true" type="string" hint="Short URL value" />
	<cfset var httpReturnStruct = structNew() />
	<cfhttp url="https://www.googleapis.com/urlshortener/v1/url" method="get" result="httpReturnStruct">
	<cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="application/json" />
	<cfhttpparam type="url" name="shortUrl" value="#arguments.shortURL#" />
	</cfhttp>
	<cfreturn deserializeJSON(httpReturnStruct.Filecontent.toString()) />
	</cffunction>

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If you will  try with the following example:

Long URL: https://developers.google.com/url-shortener/
Short URL: http://goo.gl/pZbaF

We will get the following result: