Hi, Thank you for the feed back, as I mentioned in other posts, there has been a lot of work upgrading and improving the unstructured data parsing, Address parsing is in our top priorities but it will take few more weeks, we will keep you posted here in the group.
Cheers, Julian On Jun 19, 11:43 pm, Zindus Development <[email protected]> wrote: > Donovan - like you, I'm just getting gd:formattedAddress back, not the > address parts. > > The current behaviour looks and feels like a bug to me because: > a) it's inconsistent with the treatment of gd:name, and > b) it seems to be at variance with the docs' > (although the 'may' offers some wiggle > room):http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/migration_guide.html#St... > Modifications of gd:postalAddress by old clients are reflected > in the gd:formattedAddress, and they may also trigger heuristic > parsing with the goal of obtaining the remaining components > of gd:structuredPostalAddress. > > This, together with the mishandling of gd:country make me wonder if this > v3 API needs some time to shake out and stabilise. > > To the googlers on this list: please don't take this as negativity. The > v3 features are fantastic, it just feels like they might have been > released a bit prematurely. > > Leni. > > Donovan Walker wrote: > > > Leni, > > > > if you pull addresses from google, are you getting anything other than > > the formattedAddress sub field in gd:structuredPostalAddress ? > > > > On Jun 18, 4:49 pm, Zindus Development <[email protected]> wrote: > >> A couple of questions about > gd:structuredPostalAddress:http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/elements.html#gdStructured... > >> > >> 1. is gd:formattedAddress parsed into component parts? > >> > >> When a new contact containing a > >> gd:structuredPostalAddress/gd:formattedAddress element is PUT, the > >> returned contact doesn't contain any elements for the address parts like > >> gd:street gd:city etc. > >> > >> This seems to be inconsistent with the handling of the gd:name element, > >> where creating a new contact with gd:name/gd:fullName returns a contact > >> containing the name parts: givenName, familyName etc. > >> > >> Is gd:formattedAddress supposed to be parsed into it's component parts > >> by the API? And if so, when? > >> > >> 2. is gd:country broken? > >> > >> PUT the contact given as an example > here:http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/developers_guide_protoc... > >> and the API returns: > >> 400 Bad Request > >> [Line 34, Column 42, element gd:country] Unrecognised element. > >> > >> Remove the gd:country element and it works fine. > >> > >> Leni. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts 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-contacts-api?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
