GData Feed Fetcher

[warreninaustintexas]

I'm working with Jeff Scudder's article and sample code for GData
feeds in GAE. I'm interested in the GMail Contacts feed, which is
commented out in his source file [feedfetcher.py, lines #165, 166].

Two questions:
1. Is the GMail Contacts feed is still in alpha? Is that why these
lines were commented out while the code for other feeds is active?
2. I was able to get the GMail Contacts feed working, but it is giving
me a list of contacts that seems to be about 6 months old. I've tried
adding a new contact and changing e-mail address for a contact. None
of these seems to change the list of contacts that I get from the
GMail Contacts feed. Is it pulling from a cache rather than real-time
data?

Thanks for your time.

[Jeff S]

Hi Warren,

1. I can't recall why I commented this out. It should work just
fine :)

2. If you want to check a specific contact to see if your changes went
though, you could query the self link (entry.GetSelfLink().href) to
refetch from the server. I find I often want to use a different set of
contacts than the default first page returned by the server, so I tend
to use query parameters to look at the most recently edited contacts
first or look for entries modified since a certain date. Documentation
on the query parameters in the contacts API can be found here:

http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/developers_guide_python.html#retrieving_with_query

Happy coding,

Jeff

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