Hi S, Error 500 can happen for a variety of reasons, starting from scaling issues to actual software reliability failures.
Could you provide the Google account you're authenticating with, and the calendar url your trying to access, so we can investigate further ? Thanks in advance. On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 9:22 PM, coded <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm maintaining a .Net application that makes use of the Google Calendar API > to visualize bookings and events. It uses multiple calendars to organize > different categories of events, and all those calendars are contained under > the same google user account. > > Since the beginning or April, the HTTP 500 Internal Server Error has reared > its ugly head many a time when trying to update information about events. > Currently, Google Calendar fails us more than it comes through. While > searching the web for solutions, I read a post that suggested that too much > activity on an account could cause it to lock down and become "read only". > That explanation doesn't make sense to me, though, since I'm still able to > run unit tests that are consistently successful when adding new events to a > calendar, but then provoke the error, not only when trying to update or > delete an event, but also when merely querying an event by its EventId (this > should be possible even if the account is read-only, no?). > > The following are examples of code that prompt this error. > > > EXAMPLE 1: > string eventUri = > string.Format("http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/{0}/private/full/{1}";, > calendarId, eventId); > AtomEntry entry = Service.Get(eventUri); // ERROR > > > EXAMPLE 2: > foreach (EventEntry entry in entries) //collection of EventEntry > { > // do something > entry.Delete() or entry.Update() // ERROR > } > > > BUT CREATING NEW EVENTS ALWAYS WORKS: > string calendarUri = > string.Format("http://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/{0}/private/full";, > calendarId); > > EventQuery query = new EventQuery(calendarUri); > EventFeed feed = Service.Query(query); > > //create the new event > EventEntry entry = new EventEntry( > item.Course.Title + " - " + item.Course.Level, > item.Course.Description, > item.Location.Site.Name + " - " + item.Location.Name > ); > entry.Times.Clear(); > entry.Times.Add(new Google.GData.Extensions.When > { > StartTime = date.StartTime, > EndTime = date.EndTime > }); > > //insert the event into the calendar > EventEntry newEntry = feed.Insert(entry); // NEVER EVER FAILS > > > Could someone offer some insight into what's going on? > Many thanks, > S > > -- > 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://code.google.com/apis/calendar/community/forum.html > -- Johan Euphrosine (proppy) Developer Programs Engineer Google Developer Relations -- 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://code.google.com/apis/calendar/community/forum.html
