com.google.gdata.client.Service.getFeed(URL, Class<SpreadsheetFeed>) returns basic HTML!!

[Abdullah Akbar]

Hello folks,

I am new around here. My java code just tries to read an already existing Google spreadsheet.

spreadSheetService.setUserCredentials("XXX", "XXX","pass","pass",ClientLoginAccountType.HOSTED);

URL spreadSheetURL = new URL(url);

spreadSheetService.getFeed(spreadSheetURL, SpreadsheetFeed.class);

Now the getFeed API throws  com.google.gdata.util.ParseException: Unrecognized content type:text/html;charset=UTF-8  :(

I inspected the response of the getFeed API and I find out that the spreadsheet response has opened in basic HTML : 

<div id="banner">You are currently viewing Google Docs in basic HTML. <a target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=37560&amp;hl=en_GB">Switch to a supported browser</a> to edit and share Google Docs in real time.</div> 

Can anyone please help me out here. Thanks a ton!

[Andrew Fields (Gmail)]

Your credentials probably aren't correct. See if you can use those
credentials to do something else like get a list of folders.

[Abdullah Akbar]

Thanks Andrew. I found the 2 issues.

1. Wrong import 

import com.google.gdata.data.spreadsheet.SpreadsheetEntry; should be used instead of com.google.gdata.data.docs.SpreadSheetEntry.

2. The URL was also wrong. 

https://spreadsheets.google.com/a/cordys.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aia64609in8KdFJ3bkNZVlRKSFJhbmdJY1AyRm1HVFE&hl=en_US&authkey=CLauzvMK doesnt work

it should be http://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/spreadsheets/private/full/0Aia64609in8KdFJ3bkNZVlRKSFJhbmdJY1AyRm1HVFE