I'm still confused. The error comes back with status=401L. I know 401 is an http status, but the "L" throws me off. What does the "L" mean on the 401L? I didn't see that on the pages you referred to me.
Like I said, I specifically "unshared" the file to see what error I would get. As a developer, I need to handle the most likely types of errors, but I need to know what kind of errors are going to be common and reasonable. I can write a lookup routine that converts '401' to "not authorized" or I can show the error/body that you send to me which says "Sorry, that action is not allowed" and the reason is blank. In this case, I think "not authorized" or "user xxxxxx is not authorized to read file yyyyy" would be a more clear message for my users. "Sorry, that action is not allowed" is way to general and vague. Thanks, Neal On Aug 4, 9:48 pm, Eric Bidelman <api.e...@google.com> wrote: > 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#HTTPStatusC... > > <http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/docs/2.0/reference.html#HTTPStatusC...>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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
