Reporting API date format change

[Rex Roof]

As part of our deprovisioning method we suspend our Google Apps accounts for a few weeks before we completely remove them.  We use the Reporting API to determine when an account was suspended. 

Just today I've noticed that the reporting API's "suspension_reason" value has changed formats.

This is the old format:             Disabled by operator (Mon Jun  6 11:49:07 2011 )

and here is the new format:    Disabled by operator (2012/04/03-19:07:59.047)

That first date is an ISO standard date string and easily parse-able by lots of programming libraries. 

I can definitely machine-parse that second date but in a more manual manner.  

I wanted to send out a heads-up to this list to make people aware.   As far as I know, this is the only place in the API to determine when an account was suspended. 

I believe this change happened yesterday.   I pulled and parsed the same report yesterday and I received no errors.   

This leads me to ask:

What else was changed in the reporting API?    I haven't found a document that notifies me of this change.  Is one published anywhere?

-Rex

[Jordan Pedraza]

+North America, Australia, Europe as fyi

Hi Rex,

Thanks for reporting this to us. I'll ask the API team to comment on any other updates. I also recommend checking out our API Forum if you want to send your find over there as well.

Thanks,

Jordan

Jordan Pedraza | Apps EDU Community Manager | +jordanpedraza 

-Rex

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[Andy Serwatuk]

We noticed an issue yesterday as well with the auditing API. 

We used to suspend the mailbox and then request an export. Once the export was completed, we would delete the mailbox. 

Now, we get an unknown error 1000 when we request an export of a suspended mailbox. 

I'm not entirely sure when this started as its an automated script that does it all. 

We're the some changes to the Apis over the last week or so?

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Andy Serwatuk

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