How to read birthdays from a contact list with Google Contacts API v3?

[s.strizhkov]

Hello,

I'm trying to write a Google AppEngine java program that read birthdays from user's contact list. Using google-api-java-client library (http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client). And requests to https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/* return names of contacts, addresses, but not birthdays. Is it possible to read contacts' birthdays in any way in java?

Thanks in advance!

[David Hardwick]

Something is up with the documentation. If you look at the Contact
kind here...

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/elements.html#gdContactKind

...you will not see birthday, but it is on the gdata record...

http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/javadoc/com/google/gdata/data/contacts/Birthday.html

Hope that helps
-Hardwick

On Apr 4, 9:59 am, "s.strizhkov" <s.strizh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to write a Google AppEngine java program that read birthdays
> from user's contact list. Using google-api-java-client library

> (http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client). And requests tohttps://www.google.com/m8/feeds/*return names of contacts, addresses, but

[cleros]

Thanks David!




Cleros
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[Gavin Johnson]

Birthday field was introduced as part of Gdata version 3.0. I think
this is what's up with the version 2.0 docs you've linked to :-)

I've found that you need to explicitly ask for version 3.0 in order to
get at fields like Birthday.
https://developers.google.com/google-apps/profiles/#Versioning

But the documentation is a bit of a mess at the moment. They seem to
be moving stuff from code.google.com to developers.google.com and
leaving broken links for us to find ..

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[s.strizhkov]

 

Many thanks, Gavin,

I previously sent request to the https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}, and the response has been poorer than a response from https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/default/full/{contactId}?v=3.0. In the last case, <gContact:birthday when='YYYY-MM-DD'/> is present.

[David Hardwick]

Yes, that link the v 2 doc was from the Version 3.0 API pages.

On Apr 9, 6:42 am, Gavin Johnson <snow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Birthday field was introduced as part of Gdata version 3.0. I think
> this is what's up with the version 2.0 docs you've linked to :-)
>
> I've found that you need to explicitly ask for version 3.0 in order to

> get at fields like Birthday.https://developers.google.com/google-apps/profiles/#Versioning

>
> But the documentation is a bit of a mess at the moment. They seem to
> be moving stuff from code.google.com to developers.google.com and
> leaving broken links for us to find ..
>

> On 9 April 2012 03:23, cleros <watchfreeonlinemoviesnow....@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Thanks David!
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> > Cleros
> >www.successbook.info
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> > On Saturday, April 7, 2012 3:03:22 PM UTC+3, David Hardwick wrote:
>
> >> Something is up with the documentation.  If you look at the Contact
> >> kind here...
>
> >>http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/elements.html#gdContactKind
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> >> ...you will not see birthday, but it is on the gdata record...
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> >>http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/javadoc/com/google/gdata/data/conta...

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> >> Hope that helps
> >>   -Hardwick
>
> >> On Apr 4, 9:59 am, "s.strizhkov" <s.strizh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
>
> >> > I'm trying to write a Google AppEngine java program that read birthdays
> >> > from user's contact list. Using google-api-java-client library
> >> > (http://code.google.com/p/google-api-java-client). And requests

> >> > tohttps://www.google.com/m8/feeds/*returnnames of contacts, addresses, but