Hi, I've been using the Google Provisioning API since 1.1.3.0 when we were using Email Lists rather than Groups. The Email List methods were deprecated in favour of Groups, but as far as I can tell the .NET developer's guide is misleading when it comes to retrieving group information. I've seen posts from 2009 regarding the mythical GroupFeed object in .NET and either it still hasn't been implemented in the API (or at least I can't find it) or the documentation has been incorrect or at least misleading all this time. For example consider the sections on retrieving a group (AppsService.Groups.RetrieveGroup), all groups for a member (AppsService.Groups.RetrieveGroups) and all groups in a domain (AppsService.Groups.RetrieveAllGroups), the guide states:
"Retrieving a Group To retrieve information about a group using the .NET client library, call the following method. We assume service is an authenticated AppsService object. This method returns a GroupFeed XML response, which the .NET client library converts to a GroupFeed object." "Retrieving all Groups for a Member To retrieve all of the groups that a user is a recipient of, you can call the following method in the .NET client library. We assume service is an authenticated AppsService object. This method returns a GroupFeed XML response, which the .NET client library converts to a GroupFeed object." "Retrieving all Groups in a Domain To retrieve all of the groups in a domain, you can call the following method in the .NET client library. We assume service is an authenticated AppsService object. This method returns a GroupFeed XML response, which the .NET client library converts to a GroupFeed object." This sounds like there should be a Google.<blah blah blah>.GroupFeed type, and if that was the intention then the documentation is incorrect. However if the author intended "GroupFeed object" to refer to a theoretical instance of the actual generic types then I'd say it was misleading. Also, all of these methods are portrayed as returning the same type which is not the case. Only the RetrieveGroups and RetrieveAllGroups methods return a feed object, more precisely a Google.GData.Apps.AppsExtendedFeed object. The RetrieveGroup method returns a Google.GData.Apps.AppsExtendedEntry object. So I'm asking if the documentation could be corrected/made clear with respect to these points and perhaps either explain how group information is retrieved from these AppsExtended objects or link to somewhere that does? I'm sure this would help developers in future. Regards, David McMurray. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Apps Domain Information and Management APIs" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-apps-mgmt-apis/-/iaWQqmDSbIYJ. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-apps-mgmt-apis?hl=en.
