Hi,

For your purposes you can just use the <gphoto:user> value:

http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/reference.html#gphoto_user

from their user entry:

http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default

Cheers,
-Jeff

On Nov 13, 4:21 pm, jskillings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I would like to greet a user by their username in my application, so I
> have the same question, but using 'default' won't work for me.
>
> Given a session token, how can I retrieve the username associated with
> the session token?
>
> Thank you.
>
> On Oct 22, 10:08 am, "Jeff Fisher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > You can use "default" to mean "the user I am authenticating as" when working
> > with feed URLs.
>
> > Cheers,
> > -Jeff
>
> > On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:11 AM, Abhijit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > I am trying to retrieve photos from picasa from my web application. I
> > > am using AuthSub for authentication. I am able to successfully
> > > retrieve the session token. Now the next step (as mentioned in
> > >http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/developers_guide_java.html) to
> > > search photos based on tags ..
>
> > > ---------------------------
> > > URL feedUrl = new URL("http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/
> > > username");
>
> > > Query myQuery = new Query(feedUrl);
> > > myQuery.setStringCustomParameter("kind", "photo");
> > > myQuery.setStringCustomParameter("tag", "puppy");
>
> > > AlbumFeed searchResultsFeed = myService.query(myQuery,
> > > AlbumFeed.class);
>
> > > for (PhotoEntry photo : searchResultsFeed.getPhotoEntries()) {
> > >    System.out.println(photo.getTitle().getPlainText());
> > > }
> > > --------------------------
>
> > > The prob is : how to get username from session token ? Without
> > > username I won't be able to retrieve the user album  ... please help
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