48+ hours later, the GData Contacts API continues to be problematic.
While I've been able to get around some of the problems by rewriting
my code to batch 100 contact operations into each ticket, my requests
to download and upload photos continue to fail for the most part, and
I don't think there is a way to batch photo uploads and downloads.  Is
Google imposing a rate limit on how many photos we can request per
second?  Would Google consider lifting this rate limit or at the very
least making the rate limit per hour instead of second? Having a limit
of perhaps 5000 photo downloads/uploads per hour seems like a better
approach than setting a limit of perhaps 2 contacts per second which
seems to be the current behavior.

In addition to the problem with photos, requests to create multiple
contact groups with a batch operation often come back with only some
of the groups having been created, so my app has to detect that case
and then submit another batch operation (up to 5 times in my
experience) to get all of the contact groups created.

Google, if you could get to the bottom of these issues, I would really
appreciate it!

On Apr 16, 9:35 am, Donald <[email protected]> wrote:
> Google, is there any information you can give us about these mysterious
> errors that just started occurring?  It has created a big problem for us.
>
>
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>
> On Sunday, April 15, 2012 12:54:41 AM UTC-7, Donald wrote:
>
> > I'm getting similar errors for my contacts sync app for the iPhone.  Is
> > there a quota on contacts now?
>
> > On Saturday, April 14, 2012 11:14:09 PM UTC-7, Alexey Panteleev wrote:
>
> >>  Ok, going to put rate limiting handling in place ...
>
> >> On 4/13/12 12:08 PM, "Alexey Panteleev" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> Hello, we just started getting the following error for all our users.
> >> Could you please explain what is going on? We're still using v2 api.
>
> >> google.gdata.util.ServiceException: Service Unavailable
> >> Temporary problem - please try again later. The user is over quota.
>
> >> com.yoxel.sync.mail.SyncException:
> >> com.google.gdata.util.ServiceException: Service Unavailable
> >> Temporary problem - please try again later. The user is over quota.
>
> >> Caused by: com.google.gdata.util.ServiceException: Service Unavailable
> >>         at
> >> com.google.gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest.handleErrorResponse(HttpGData
> >>  Request.java:624)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:na]
> >>         at
> >> com.google.gdata.client.http.GoogleGDataRequest.handleErrorResponse(GoogleG
> >>  DataRequest.java:563)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:na]
> >>         at
> >> com.google.gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest.checkResponse(HttpGDataReques
> >>  t.java:552)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:na]
> >>         at
> >> com.google.gdata.client.http.HttpGDataRequest.execute(HttpGDataRequest.java
> >>  :530)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:na]
> >>         at
> >> com.google.gdata.client.http.GoogleGDataRequest.execute(GoogleGDataRequest.
> >>  java:535)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:na]
> >>         at com.google.gdata.client.Service.update(Service.java:1563)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:1.41.5]
> >>         at com.google.gdata.client.Service.update(Service.java:1530)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:1.41.5]
> >>         at
> >> com.google.gdata.client.GoogleService.update(GoogleService.java:583)
> >> ~[gdata-core-1.0-1.41.5.jar:1.41.5]

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