GTLRGmailService failed execute query when sending email with attachment (6MB) api gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send

[mihir mehta]

Hi There,

I am trying to send email within my iOS app, The code works fine as long as attachment is small. But if i try to send large attachment (> 6MB) the query instantly fails. 

Here is my code

        let group = DispatchGroup()

        let message = GTLRGmail_Message()

        self.gmailService = GTLRGmailService()

        let rawMessage:String = generateRawString() // Raw Message in Base64 String

        message.raw = rawMessage

        let query: GTLRGmailQuery = GTLRGmailQuery_UsersMessagesSend.query(withObject: message, userId: BSMConstants.BSMGmailAPIUserIdME, uploadParameters: nil)

        var gmailMessage: GTLRGmail_Message?

        

        group.enter()

        _ = gmailService?.executeQuery(query, completionHandler: { (_, message, error) in

            if error == nil && message is GTLRGmail_Message {

                gmailMessage = message as? GTLRGmail_Message

            }

            group.leave()

        })

        group.wait()

    

        return gmailMessage

       

Please note that the above code works just fine when attachment size is small .... 

Here is the raw email string in plain text (Email addresses are valid but i have hide it.)

Date: Thu, 04 Apr 2019 11:45:06 +0530

From: Mihir Mehta99 <xxx...@xxxxx.xxx>

To: mihir mehta <xxxx...@gmail.com>

Subject: With attachment

Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="dejhLO8fc9OT6X"

--dejhLO8fc9OT6X

Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="CmIHym3S6rVtvf"

--CmIHym3S6rVtvf

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8"

PFA

Sent from Blueskyme App

--CmIHym3S6rVtvf

Content-Type: text/html; charset="UTF-8"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

IAoKCgpQRkE8YnI+PGJyPjxicj4gPGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cHM6Ly9ibHVlc2t5bWUucGFnZS5saW5rL2FwcHMiPgpTZW50IGZyb20gQmx1ZXNreW1lIEFwcDwvYT4=

--CmIHym3S6rVtvf--

--dejhLO8fc9OT6X

Content-Type: image/png; name="3CDE712B-71F3-436D-9C34-E7100A7987F4.png"

Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="3CDE712B-71F3-436D-9C34-E7100A7987F4.png"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

///////////////////// BASE64 STRING OF ATTACHMENT GOES HERE (SIZE AROUND 9 MB) //////////////////////////////

--dejhLO8fc9OT6X--

the completion block gives me following error

{

    NSErrorFailingURLKey = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?prettyPrint=false";

    NSErrorFailingURLStringKey = "https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?prettyPrint=false";

    NSLocalizedDescription = "unknown error";

    NSUnderlyingError = "Error Domain=kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork Code=-998 \"(null)\" UserInfo={NSErrorPeerAddressKey=<CFData 0x600002bbcff0 [0x110c19b68]>{length = 16, capacity = 16, bytes = 0x100201bbacd91bca0000000000000000}, _kCFStreamErrorCodeKey=0, _kCFStreamErrorDomainKey=2}";

    "_NSURLErrorFailingURLSessionTaskErrorKey" = "LocalDataTask <400B1836-8DDB-43D3-96FB-C110931F71CF>.<1>";

    "_NSURLErrorRelatedURLSessionTaskErrorKey" =     (

        "LocalDataTask <400B1836-8DDB-43D3-96FB-C110931F71CF>.<1>"

    );

    "_kCFStreamErrorCodeKey" = 0;

    "_kCFStreamErrorDomainKey" = 2;

}

It fails immediately  

Please note that device is properly connected to internet and has no any network issue.... as well as other functionality of the library works just fine. It only fails when attachment is bit large, works fine otherwise

Do i need to do something differently when attachment size is bit large ? 

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

[mihir mehta]

From library i am getting following NSURLResponse 

<NSHTTPURLResponse: 0x600000da2e20> { URL: https://www.googleapis.com/gmail/v1/users/me/messages/send?prettyPrint=false } { Status Code: 413, Headers {
    "Cache-Control" =     (
        "private, max-age=0"
    );
    "Content-Encoding" =     (
        gzip
    );
    "Content-Length" =     (
        133
    );
    "Content-Type" =     (
        "text/html; charset=UTF-8"
    );
    Date =     (
        "Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:55:24 GMT"
    );
    Expires =     (
        "Thu, 04 Apr 2019 06:55:24 GMT"
    );
    Server =     (
        GSE
    );
    "alt-svc" =     (
        "quic=\":443\"; ma=2592000; v=\"46,44,43,39\""
    );
    "x-content-type-options" =     (
        nosniff
    );
    "x-frame-options" =     (
        SAMEORIGIN
    );
    "x-xss-protection" =     (
        "1; mode=block"
    );
} }

In Function 

- (void)URLSession:(NSURLSession *)session
          dataTask:(NSURLSessionDataTask *)dataTask
didReceiveResponse:(NSURLResponse *)response
 completionHandler:(void (^)(NSURLSessionResponseDisposition))handler {
 }

From  GTMSessionFetcherService.m

[Thomas Van Lenten]

Using a dispatch group like that likely isn't going to work since I believe NSURLSession likely wants working runloops, queues not blocked, etc.  You'd be better of using real async code and getting called back later when things finish without blocking the starting queue/thread.

TVL

[mihir mehta]

Thank you Thomas, 

I already try to run the same code without using dispatch group at all. It doesn't change the outcome. And the same code works fine when attachment is small (< 5~6 MB).