That is a good plan, check the new ETag, wait around 1 minute, and retry few times if it fails.
Cheers, --Julian On Oct 24, 5:48 pm, dflorey <[email protected]> wrote: > Unfortunately even when checking the ETag you may get > > ailed to updatecontact'XXX XXXXX' with url=http://www.google.com/ > m8/ > feeds/contacts/daniel.floreysoft%40googlemail.com/full/ > 114f9fc98f4acbb6' > com.google.gdata.util.PreconditionFailedException: OK > Mismatch: etags = ["R3c7fjVSLyt7ImA9WxNXGUQLRA0."], version > = [1254991136967000] > > So my plan is to check for a new etag and wait for another minute once > the etag changed. It that a safe approach? > > On 22 Okt., 15:52, "Julian (Google)" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > We have received reports of extreme cases where a developer needs to > > wait up to 1 minute for an update. We know this is not ideal and until > > we make this more reliable, a solution is to retrieve thecontact > > again and compare its ETag and/or updated time with the results of the > > update. > > > Cheers, > > Julian > > > On Oct 21, 10:02 am, dflorey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Julian, > > > more info would be highly appreciated. Can you give us a hint how to > > > implement changingcontact+photo in a reliable way? > > > My customers suffer from very strange side effects when enabling photo > > > sharing. > > > > Thanks, > > > Daniel > > > > On Oct 19, 2:14 pm, Zindus Development <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Julian (Google) wrote: > > > > > It is not possible to update thecontactand the photo at the same > > > > > time, because updating acontact'sphoto causes acontacttimestamp > > > > > change. In the other hand, there is a replication process behind the > > > > > scenes, this causes a delay after the update and because of this you > > > > > may need to wait a bit longer to be able to perform the second update. > > > > > By "wait a bit longer", can you suggest a reasonable threshold? 1s? 2s? > > > > 10s? > > > > > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
