Thanks for your followup Kulvinder. FYI - There's also a limit to the length of the value. It is 1024.
Hopefully this works for your use case. I'll work on getting this information documented. Cheers, -Ryan On 2/16/07, Kulvinder Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Frank, > > Thanks a lot fo ryour kind reply. I have a workaround for this and i have > now implemented that. > > The only reason why i wrote this is that i want the Google Calendar API to > be just next to perfection. > > Thanx again. > > *Frank Mantek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>* wrote: > > Right now, the google calendar has, as said above, a max. length > limitation on the key. There is a bug assigned against them, but you can > easily argue that to be a feature request, as for a key, 47 chars is not > really a small measure. Yes, it's arbitrary, and yes, it's not universal, > and no, i have no clue why that number exist :) > > I am not working in the calendar team, and i can't judge their decision > tree, but, if I would be in your shoes, i would probably at least evaluate > an alternative key generation scheme/mapping. Even if they fix this, i would > guess that this is not very high in the priority list, so you might wait a > while until this get's addressed. > > But.. if you tell us more about the issue, we might be able to come up > with a good enough workaround for you? > > Frank Mantek > Google > > > On 2/16/07, Kulvinder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > Any update on this ? > > > > > > On Feb 3, 1:24 pm, "DPM" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > It looks like google calendar has a max key length of ~47 characters. > > > In the short run, if you Base64 encode your string instead of Hex > > > encoding it, it looks like it will fit within the limit. > > > > > > On Jan 29, 6:26 am, Kulvinder Singh < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > Thanks for your kind reply. > > > > > > > Any tentative date by which you guys be able to figure this out? > > > > > > > Thanks in Advance > > > > > > > "Ryan Boyd (Google)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Thanks for your question. I'm looking into this and will write when > > I > > > > have more info. > > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > > > > -Ryan > > > > > > > On Jan 28, 12:31 am, Kulvinder Singh wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I am adding ExtendedProperty to the google event i am inserting in > > > > > > > Google Calendar through its API. The key value pair is : > > > > > > > > key : > > > > > > > B50895624724034584D5B3A6F14919520100FFC334DDS9923892736454ED35462892 > > > > > value : > > > > > > > 00000000B50895624724034584D5B3A6F14919520700FFC334DD5A6B9E44B94187DCECEE6F76000000002B1E0000271711841D427B478E7903E28B970F2C00000012060C0000 > > > > > > > > But the problem is that the key being inserted is only : > > > > > > > > B50895624724034584D5B3A6F14919520100FFC334DD > > > > > > > > Why the Google API trims off the key length ? > > > > > > > > Can't i store a long key ? > > > > > > > > Please help. > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > > > > Looking for earth-friendly autos? > > > > > Browse Top Cars by "Green Rating" at Yahoo! Autos' Green Center. > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > > > Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta.- Hide quoted > > text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Never miss an email again! > > Yahoo! > > Toolbar<http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=49938/*http://tools.search.yahoo.com/toolbar/features/mail/>alerts > > you the instant new Mail arrives.Check it out.> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Calendar Data API" group. 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-calendar-help-dataapi?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
