Vacation Responder Date Setting

[Corry Dringenburg]

Hello, 

We have written an application that we can use to set the vacation responder settings on someones email account. After some testing, I have found a bug in the way the API works. When setting the start and the end date, it always sets them 1 day behind, i.e. if I set start date to Aug 23 and the end to Aug 27 in the app, it sets the actual dates in the Gmail settings to Aug 22 and Aug 26. And when I use the API to get the Entry back from the feed, the Entry says the start is Aug 23 and the end is Aug 27, like I set in the app. 

Another thing I noticed, if you set the start and/or end date in the Gmail Settings, the API will bring back the correct date, i.e. if I set start to Aug 23 in the Gmail settings and use the API to get the Entry from the feed, the Entry says the start is Aug 23.

Thanks,

Corry

[Claudio Cherubino]

Hi Corry,

Which timezone are you in?

Can you show us your code and a capture of the XML request/response? 

Does the response contain the date you specified in the request or a different one?

Claudio

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[Corry Dringenburg]

I am in EST, but it shouldn't matter because the dates are passed around as formatted strings.

Here is a test program I wrote in Java. Its sets the vacation responder with the API using a hardcoded entry, then pulls back the entry and prints it out: 

public class VacationTest {

    public static void main(String[] args) {

         System.out.println("Program start");

         setVacation();

         getVacation();

         System.out.println("Program finish");

    }

    

    public static void setVacation(){

        GmailSettingsService serv = null;

        try{

            serv = new GmailSettingsService("your-apps", "XXXXXX.XXX", "XXXXXX", "XXXXXX");

        }catch(Exception e){

            e.printStackTrace();

            System.out.println("new service threw exception");

        }

        System.out.println("Creating entry");

        GenericEntry ent = new GenericEntry();

        ent.addProperty("enable", "true");

        ent.addProperty("contactsOnly", "true");

        ent.addProperty("domainOnly", "false");

        ent.addProperty("subject", "Test");

        ent.addProperty("message", "test");

        ent.addProperty("startDate", "2011-08-23");

        ent.addProperty("endDate", "2011-08-27");

        

        ent.validate();

        

        URL url = null;

        try{

            url = new URL("https://apps-apis.google.com/a/feeds/emailsettings/2.0/XXXXXX.XXX/XXXXXX/XXXXXX");

        }catch(Exception e){

            e.printStackTrace();

            System.out.println("new url threw exception");

        }

        try{

            System.out.println("Sending entry");

            serv.update(url, ent);

        }catch(Exception e){

            e.printStackTrace();

            System.out.println("update threw exception");

        }

    }

    

    public static void getVacation(){

         GmailSettingsService serv = null;

        try{

            serv = new GmailSettingsService("your-apps", "XXXXXX.XXX", "XXXXXX", "XXXXXX");

        }catch(Exception e){

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        

        URL url = null;

        try{

            url = new URL("https://apps-apis.google.com/a/feeds/emailsettings/2.0/XXXXXX.XXX/XXXXXX/XXXXXX");

        }catch(Exception e){

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        

        GenericEntry entry = null;

        

        try{

           entry = serv.getEntry(url, GenericEntry.class);

        }catch(Exception e){

            e.printStackTrace();

        }

        

        Map map = entry.getAllProperties();

        

        Iterator iterator = map.keySet().iterator();  

   

        System.out.println("Printing entry");

        while (iterator.hasNext()) {  

           String key = iterator.next().toString();  

           String value = map.get(key).toString();  

           System.out.println(key + " : " + value);  

        }  

    }

}

Here is a screen clip of my output window:

And here is a screen clip of the actual Gmail Settings page: 

[Claudio Cherubino]

Hi Corry,

I managed to reproduce the issue in my test domain and I asked the engineers to investigate the issue.

I'll get back to you as soon as I get an update from them.

Thanks for reporting the issue and providing the sample code.

Claudio

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