Glad to hear that! But again: you don't need to send an XML body in your request. Just issue a POST to your URL with the override method set to DELETE. The body will be ignored on the servers anyways.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 9:44 AM, anushree <[email protected]>wrote: > @detlev - thank you.. you reply really helped > i was finally able to delete an album > i just made the following changes to the code: > StringBuffer xmlBuffer = new StringBuffer(); > xmlBuffer.append("<entry>"); > xmlBuffer.append("<link rel='edit'" > +"href=' > http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/ > androidproject007/albumid/"+albumid+"'/>"); > xmlBuffer.append("</entry>"); > String s = "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/ > androidproject007/albumid/<http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/%0Aandroidproject007/albumid/> > "+albumid; > URL url = new URL(s); > > > now it works!!! > i have to use the underlying protocol here because i am developing for > android which does not allow the direct use of the picasa web albums > api > > On Mar 10, 10:34 pm, Detlev Schwabe <[email protected]> wrote: > > Why are you posting an XML body to delete an album? This is probably > what's > > causing the 501. > > > > Don't create and send your xmlBuffer in the request. Just send the > required > > headers to the proper album edit URL. > > > > Also, the URL you're sending this to is wrong. You have to use an album > edit > > URL. > > You can read up on deleting albums again here: > http://code.google.com/apis/picasaweb/docs/2.0/developers_guide_proto... > > > > Example: > > POST /data/entry/api/user/<user_id>/albumid/<some_album_id> HTTP/1.1 > > X-HTTP-Method-Override: DELETE > > GData-Version: 2 > > Authorization: GoogleLogin auth=<some_auth_key> > > If-Match: * > > > > On a side note: Why don't you just use the JAVA client library for > > interacting with the service? > > > > On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 1:52 AM, anushree <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > > > > > i have been trying to delete an album from my picasa web album.. > > > however i have tried everything and it isn't working properly.. > > > i am pasting the code here > > > can anyone please tell me why it is not working properly > > > also my firewall is blocking the DELETE request so i have used the > > > alternate method as suggested in this forum > > > here's the code: > > > > > private static final String CLIENT_LOGIN_URL = > > > "https://www.google.com/accounts/ClientLogin";; > > > private static final String PICASA_POST_URL_TEMPLATE = > > > "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/%s";; > > > private static final String PICASA_DELETE_URL_TEMPLATE = > > > "http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/%s";; > > > > > private static final String EMAIL = "<email>"; > > > private static final String PASSWORD = "<password>"; > > > > > private static final String AUTH_PREFIX = "Auth"; > > > > > private static final String AUTH_HEADER_KEY = "Authorization"; > > > private static final String AUTH_HEADER_VALUE_TEMPLATE = > > > "GoogleLogin > > > auth=%s"; > > > private static final String GDATA_VERSION_HEADER_KEY = "GData- > > > Version"; > > > private static final String GDATA_VERSION_HEADER_VALUE = "2"; > > > private static final String CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER_KEY = > > > "Content-Type"; > > > private static final String CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER_VALUE = > > > "application/ > > > atom+xml"; > > > private static final String CONTENT_LENGTH_HEADER_KEY = > "Content- > > > Length"; > > > private static final String MIME_VERSION_HEADER_KEY = > > > "MIME-Version"; > > > private static final String MIME_VERSION_HEADER_VALUE = "1.0"; > > > private static final String USER_AGENT_HEADER_KEY = > "User-Agent"; > > > private static final String USER_AGENT_HEADER_VALUE = "Picasa > > > Android > > > Client"; > > > private static final String > X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE="X-HTTP-Method- > > > Override"; > > > private static final String X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE_VALUE = > "DELETE"; > > > private static final String IF_MATCH = "If-Match"; > > > private static final String IF_MATCH_VALUE = " *"; > > > > > private void deleteAlbum(String auth,String albumid) > > > { > > > try > > > { > > > StringBuffer xmlBuffer = new StringBuffer(); > > > xmlBuffer.append("<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'" > +" > > > xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'"+ > > > " xmlns:gphoto='http://schemas.google.com/ > > > photos/2007 <http://schemas.google.com/%0Aphotos/2007>'>"); > > > xmlBuffer.append("<link rel='edit'" > > > +"href=' > > >http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/userid/ > > > albumid/< > http://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/userid/%0Aalbumid/> > > > "+albumid+"'/>"); > > > xmlBuffer.append("</entry>"); > > > > > URL url = new URL(String.format(PICASA_DELETE_URL_TEMPLATE, > > > "userid")); > > > HttpURLConnection httpConnection = (HttpURLConnection) > > > url.openConnection(); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > AUTH_HEADER_KEY, > > > String.format(AUTH_HEADER_VALUE_TEMPLATE, auth)); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > GDATA_VERSION_HEADER_KEY, > > > GDATA_VERSION_HEADER_VALUE); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER_KEY, > CONTENT_TYPE_HEADER_VALUE); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > CONTENT_LENGTH_HEADER_KEY, > > > Integer.toString(xmlBuffer.length())); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > USER_AGENT_HEADER_KEY, USER_AGENT_HEADER_VALUE); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > MIME_VERSION_HEADER_KEY, > MIME_VERSION_HEADER_VALUE); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE, > > > X_HTTP_METHOD_OVERRIDE_VALUE); > > > httpConnection.setRequestProperty( > > > IF_MATCH, IF_MATCH_VALUE); > > > httpConnection.setDoOutput(true); > > > httpConnection.setRequestMethod("POST"); > > > > > OutputStreamWriter writer = new > > > OutputStreamWriter(httpConnection.getOutputStream()); > > > System.out.println(xmlBuffer.toString()); > > > writer.write(xmlBuffer.toString()); > > > writer.flush(); > > > int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode(); > > > System.out.println(responseCode); > > > }catch(Exception e){} > > > > > } > > > > > this is returning a 501 status code !!! 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