Wow, that's pretty terrible latency. You should file a bug about that:
http://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/list Use the <updated> element of the feed to determine if the feed has changed since you cached a copy. Cheers, -Jeff On Sep 24, 1:03 pm, Gummbahla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm currently working on a project in which i'm using the Picasa Web > Albums PHP API. Although everything works fine, i was wondering why it > takes such a long time for requests to be completed. > In my little test, i'm first connecting to Google through the API. > Then i'm retreiving all user albums from two different users (say x > and y). X has about 25 albums, Y has only 2 albums. > I did some analysis on the amount of time each step consumes (the > number is the total amount of time up till then): > > Starting: 0 > Connected to Google API: 0.75138092041016 > Retreived userfeed xxxxxxx: 1.8700640201569 > Retreived userfeed yyyyyyy: 2.3094940185547 > Done!: 2.3114068508148 > > As you see, it takes almost 2,5 seconds to retreive the album lists of > only 2 userfeeds. Because this is not acceptable for my application, I > thought of caching possibilities. However, how do i determine whether > my cache is outdated without the need for downloading the whole > albumlists to compare everything? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums 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-Picasa-Data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
