Sporadic 503 errors when creating calendars

[Isaac Cambron]

Often, when creating calendars, I get a 503 error:

 {

 "error": {

  "errors": [

   {

    "domain": "global",

    "reason": "backendError",

    "message": "Backend Error"

   }

  ],

  "code": 503,

  "message": "Backend Error"

 }

}

I'm creating the calendars (and then deleting them) as part of a simple system test. I'm doing it via a simple POST to /calendar/v3/calendars with just "summary:test" in the body, along with the appropriate auth headers. Sometimes it works, but often (and today, usually) it fails. 

What could be happening?

Thanks,

Isaac

[Alain Vongsouvanh]

Hello,

Are you using a specific client library? Could you give us the exact body you are sending to the API?

Additionally, if you could try with another test account or/and with the APIs Explorer to try and see if this is client/account specific, that could help us investigate the issue.

Thanks!

Alain

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[Isaac Cambron]

Hi Alain,

Sorry, I'd lost track of this. I'm using the OAuth2 Ruby gem to pass do make the request, but I'm constructing my own URLs/bodies outside of that, and parsing the results myself. I've been unable to duplicate the issue through the API Explorer.

I've seen the issue a lot less than when I first posted this (no changes to my code though), and I don't have the exact log available. If I see it a bunch more, I'll tack on the exact request to this thread. In the meantime, just looking at my code:

POST

https://www.googleapis.com/calendar/v3/calendars

Authorization: Bearer tokenstuff

summary: "Name of Calendar"

So pretty vanilla.

-Isaac

[Isaac Cambron]

Hi Alain,

Since I'm seeing this again, I did some work to isolate the code and posted it here: https://github.com/icambron/GCal-test. Please take a look.

The one extra complication is that I'm also experiencing this. I'm not sure if it's related or not, but that error sometimes gets in the way of my seeing *this* error.

-Isaac