PoCo Gmail support - get email addresses

[russx2]

Hi there,

I've implemented a basic PoCo test using Google's OpenSocial PHP
library with the intent of accessing the list of contacts available.
Despite playing around with which fields are returned etc. (e.g.
fields = '@all') I can not seem to get the email addresses for the
contacts.

I've seen mention of people having a similar issue but I can't find a
definitive "You can't get email addresses using this API". I could
understand if this is due to privacy issues etc. However, another
quick test I knocked up using AuthSub (with a single token access)
returns me all of a user's Gmail contacts emails.

Why would this be available with one API and not the other? Perhaps
I'm missing the point of PoCo - but without email addresses, what real
use is the data?

Hoping someone can clarify this for me. Thanks in advance.

Russ

[Joseph Smarr]

Weird, that used to work fine, but it doesn't seem to currently be returning email addresses. Not sure if that's intentional or not--last time I checked, Google's PoCo was supposed to return all the same data that the normal GData Contacts API would return, and that includes e-mail addresses (it's *your* address book data, after all!). Lemme investigate, and I'll get back to you ASAP. Thanks for bringing this to my attention! js

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[Ruturaj Dhekane]

Yes I have faced this problem too.. and its been there for sometime now..

[Dan Brickley]

On 24 January 2011 22:29, Ruturaj Dhekane <rutu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I have faced this problem too.. and its been there for sometime now..

Are the PoCo interfaces to Gmail ... under-advertised? I'm suprised
there weren't more instant complaints as soon as things broke...

cheers,

Dan

[Joseph Smarr]

A lot of people still use the proprietary GData Contacts API (classic chicken-egg problem: until more other providers support PoCo, there's less incentive for developers to code to the standard vs. one-off APIs).

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[Joseph Smarr]

Sorry for the delay, but this was indeed a bug in Google's code, and a
fix has now been pushed live. You should once again be able to get all
the e-mail addresses of your contacts when you access your address
book via Google's Portable Contacts API.

Thanks again for the report, and happy hacking! :) js

On Jan 24, 3:37 pm, Joseph Smarr <jsm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> A lot of people still use the proprietary GData Contacts API (classic
> chicken-egg problem: until more other providers support PoCo, there's less
> incentive for developers to code to the standard vs. one-off APIs).
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> On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 2:23 PM, Dan Brickley <dan...@danbri.org> wrote:

> > On 24 January 2011 22:29, Ruturaj Dhekane <rutura...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Yes I have faced this problem too.. and its been there for sometime now..
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> > Are the PoCo interfaces to Gmail ... under-advertised? I'm suprised
> > there weren't more instant complaints as soon as things broke...
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> > cheers,
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> > Dan
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