Hi Simon, Sorry if I confused you. Yes the way you are going about works better.
1) create the event 2) get it comment url 3) post a new comment entry to that url I am going to try to reproduce that error you got when posting a comment entry to the comment url, I will let you know. Thanks! Austin On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Simon Wistow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 04:16:07PM -0700, Austin (Google) said: > > 6) Create a new <feed> > > 7) Add a <gd:comments> entry to the feed > > 8) POST this feed to the comment URL from step #5 > > I'm slightly confused by this since it's very different from what the > docs say. > > Some questions: > > 1) Why do I have to create a new feed - can I not just retrieve the > autogenerated feed and add a new entry to that and then repost it? > > 2) Why do I have to add a new <gd:comments> to add into the new comments > feed? That doesn't match what is returned when I manually add comments > in Google Calendar and then retrieve them. What should the new comment > feed look like? > > <feed> > <gd:comments> > <entry>Foo</entry> > </gd:comments> > </feed > > > > > I've attempted to create an entry, get its comment url, retrieve the > feed from there and add this entry > > <entry xmlns="http://purl.org/atom/ns#";> > > <content mode="xml"> > <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";>Test comment</div> > </content> > <author> > <name>Simon Wistow</name> > <email>[EMAIL PROTECTED]</email> > </author> > </entry> > > > However when I do that I get > > 400 Bad Request - No authors for comment - > > http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/simon.wistow%40gmail.com/private/full/6c2vs1npt8tna10opd9fj7vb9c/comments?gsessionid=HKAzMmOlnSZwM7HYUX2XYw > > which is odd because that author element is exactly the same as the > author element created automatically when I post a comment on Google > Calendar. > > > > The reason I think separating out the creation of the event and the > > comment is a good idea because the comment feed wouldn't not exist > > until the event is actually created. And the event feed and comment > > feed actually are considered separate resources with different feed > > URL. > > Why not make it so that if you post an event with a > > <gd:comments> > <gd:feedLink> > <feed> > .... > > </feed> > </gd:feedLink> > </gd:comments> > > (which, after all, is allowed according to the docs) that the comment > feed that's created has the entries of the specified feed in it? > > > > Simon > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
