Hi Neal, Some standard errors come to all of the Data APIs are listed here: http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/reference.html#HTTPStatusCodes
<http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/reference.html#HTTPStatusCodes>Of course, each API may have slightly different errors specific to that service. In general, you can follow the above list, but I wouldn't recommend displaying the error message directly. For example, you can assume a 401 is related to an authentication issue. In your example, it's b/c the user doesn't have access to that document. Eric On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 6:17 PM, NealWalters <nealwalt...@nealwalters.com>wrote: > > > I purposely caused this error by removing a user from the document, > and trying to get it's feed by docid: > > {'status': 401L, 'body': 'Sorry, that action is not allowed', > 'reason': ''} > > I'm looking for where these erros are documented. The reason above > seems to be blank, this is not an error that a user would understand, > so I'm tasked with interpreting the errors for the user. > > Is there a page in the doc that says what a 401L is, and what other > errors I might possibly get? > > I'm running under GAE, here's my code. I've got a timeout once or > twice, so I'm trying to retry for timeouts, but give a more friendly > message for other type of errors. > > > def GetGoogleDocHTMLContents(argClient, argDocId): > """ > Given a docId, and an already authorized client, > grab the HTML contents of a file on google docs > """ > exportFormat = "html" > domain = "docs.google.com" > url = "http://"; + domain + "/feeds/download/documents/Export? > docID=" + argDocId + "&exportFormat=" + exportFormat > > #TODO - how to test this - also might want retry on other feeds and > client.login > retries = 0 > htmlFileContents = "" > err = "time" #short for timeout > while retries < 5 and "time" in err.lower(): > try: > htmlFileContents = argClient.Get(url,converter=str) > retries = 9999 #we got the file, quit the loop > except (Exception), err: > #TODO specifically look for timeout here, not just any error > retries += 1 > htmlFileContents = str(err) > import logging > logging.debug("GetGoogleDocHTMLContents:" + str(err)) > > return htmlFileContents > > > Thanks, > Neal Walters > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Docs Data APIs" group. To post to this group, send email to Google-Docs-Data-APIs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-docs-data-apis+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Docs-Data-APIs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
