URLFetch 5 second timeout - GDocs Feeds Aren't Working

[Sam G]

GAE Team,

I'm posting this to raise a bit of awareness for an issue that has
been listed in the tracker.

Because of the 5 second timeout limitation for URLFetch, it raises an
exception when you try to retrieve a GData Docs List feed with over
100 items. This is a serious problem to anyone who plans to use the
Docs List feed API with their application - and currently, there's no
way to use the maxitems query parameter with the client library.

I've been told by the Docs API people to post over here and create an
issue. Here is the issue page:

http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?can=2&q=700&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Priority%20Stars%20Owner%20Summary&id=700

You can also see these earlier Groups posts, at the Docs API group:
http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Docs-Data-APIs/browse_thread/thread/558629a671ddfac9

Here is the issue in the tracker for GData Python Client library:
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/issues/detail?id=169

If you plan on using the GDocs feeds in your applications, start the
issues!

Sam

[Sam G]

Bump. In fact, if this effects you, can you post here? I'm also trying
to poll interest.

On Sep 23, 11:10 am, Sam G <sgammo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> GAE Team,
>
> I'm posting this to raise a bit of awareness for an issue that has
> been listed in the tracker.
>
> Because of the 5 second timeout limitation for URLFetch, it raises an
> exception when you try to retrieve a GData Docs List feed with over
> 100 items. This is a serious problem to anyone who plans to use the
> Docs List feed API with their application - and currently, there's no
> way to use the maxitems query parameter with the client library.
>
> I've been told by the Docs API people to post over here and create an
> issue. Here is the issue page:
>

> http://code.google.com/p/googleappengine/issues/detail?can=2&q=700&co...
>
> You can also see these earlier Groups posts, at the Docs API group:http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Docs-Data-APIs/browse_thread/th...

[Michael Hart]

Hi Sam,

Are you saying the start-index and max-results parameters aren't
working? (as described here):

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/reference.html#Queries

Or is it a problem with gdata-python-client?

If you can construct a query that returns in under 5 seconds, then
this doesn't sound like a GAE issue.

Cheers,

Michael

[Sam G]

I see what you're saying.

It's not possible to use the maxresults or query parameters with the
gdata-python-client.
In order to use these, you have to operate with raw HTTP.

I'm posting here because the GDocs API team told me to. Apparently,
there is no plan in the works to fix the response time issues on their
side - and besides, why should Google enforce the 5 second policy for
their own feeds?

There is already an issue in the tracker for gdata-python-client.

Sam