This is true for a number of different fields throughout the Picasa API. I do this loop when going from user to album to photo to etc... I never rely on the atom feed data only the atom entry data. Seems a bit of a poor design, but it has saved me hours of wracking around like this.
Paul. From: google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com [mailto:google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Mike Erickson Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2012 7:12 PM To: google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com Subject: [PWA API] Re: Why does PhotoEntry.getViewCount() always return null? I have a solution,although you might not think it's a good solution. The problem is that the view count is only correctly returned for PhotoEntry requests that are requested directly. So although the AlbumFeed contains PhotoEntry objects, those objects will not work for you. But you can do this: String albumId = "5789637314433011089"; feedURL = new URL( String.format("https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/default/album id/%s?v=2 <https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/default/albumid/%25s?v=2&ki nd=photo> &kind=photo", albumId)); AlbumFeed albumFeed = myService.getFeed(feedURL, AlbumFeed.class); for (PhotoEntry photo : albumFeed.getPhotoEntries()) { String photoId = photo.getGphotoId(); URL photoEntryUrl = new URL( String.format("https://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default/albu mid/%s/photoid/%s?v=2 <https://picasaweb.google.com/data/entry/api/user/default/albumid/%25s/photo id/%25s?v=2> ", albumId, photoId)); PhotoEntry photoEntry = myService.getEntry(photoEntryUrl, PhotoEntry.class); System.out.println("View count = " + photoEntry.getViewCount()); } The thing to notice is that the URL for the nested request is .../data/entry/api.... instead of .../data/feed/api... I hope that helps, at least a little. -Mike On Tuesday, September 18, 2012 12:38:27 PM UTC-7, Bmeist wrote: Greetings, I cannot seem to get anything other than null to return from PhotoEntry.getViewCount(). All of my photos have view counts shown on the picasaweb interface. Also, hasViewCountExt() returns false for all of them. If I paste the URL into a browser and view the source, I can see the correct view count. Thanks very much for any advice! URL feedURL = new URL("https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/118157739053519600454/a lbumid/5783763403683349537/photoid/5783763444234578498?v=2"); Query query = new Query(feedURL); query.setStringCustomParameter("kind", "photo"); int numPhotos = feed.getPhotoEntries().size(); AlbumFeed feed = picasaService.query(query, AlbumFeed.class); for (int i = 0; i < numPhotos; i++) { PhotoEntry photo = (PhotoEntry) feed.getPhotoEntries().get(i); System.out.println("view count = " + photo.getViewCount()); } -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/google-picasa-data-api/-/tt7qtN-BIGUJ. To post to this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en. -- 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 google-picasa-data-api@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to google-picasa-data-api+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api?hl=en.
