Could it be that the api uses the email as a unique identifier of each contact entry? This may allow you to create one with an empty email, but for sure would fail when adding the second as it would appear to be a duplicate of the first (perhaps with other information that is different). If the api developer requires an email for contact creation, then you would get an error when adding the first contact without an email address.
On Tuesday, October 2, 2012 2:50:19 AM UTC-7, Cedric Sohrauer wrote: > > When I try to create a contact without an email I get an malformed or > illegal request error. The XML for the contact has the following structure: > > <atom:entry xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"; xmlns:gd=" > http://schemas.google.com/g/2005"; xmlns:gContact=" > http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008";> > <atom:category scheme="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind"; term=" > http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact"/> > <atom:content type="text">Some Text</atom:content> > <gd:name> > <gd:givenName>GivenName</gd:givenName> > <gd:familyName>FamilyName</gd:familyName> > </gd:name> > <gd:phoneNumber rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work";>+123 456 > 789</gd:phoneNumber> > <gd:organization rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work";> > <gd:orgName>OrgName</gd:orgName> > </gd:organization> > <gd:structuredPostalAddress rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work";> > <gd:street>Street</gd:street> > <gd:city>City</gd:city> > <gd:country>USA</gd:country> > <gd:postcode>123456</gd:postcode> > </gd:structuredPostalAddress> > </atom:entry> > > I successfully synchronized more than 4000 contacts with email addresses > with the same script but omitting the email field leads to an error. > > Thanks in advance, > > Cedric > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Contacts, Shared Contacts and User Profiles APIs" 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/contacts/community/forum.html
