Yes, I'm aware it's the experimental API. If there were a stable API, I'd use it. But there isn't one. We developers - your customers - aren't actually interested in your little laboratory experiments, we're trying to solve a business need which is why we're using your annoying, bug-prone and under-documented experiment in the first place.
Unfortunately, there are 0 customer-focused persons assigned to the Google Spreadsheets API. In another thread I outlined exactly how I thought the Tables API could/should work, and you did not address any specific techincal idea in that post. I only get a reply from you when I complain. I happen to need the Spreadsheet API, so unlike Ralph who has given up on the whole charade, you can expect to hear increasingly public pressure applied from me to get the Spreadsheet API turned into something which my application can *rely on* without continual fussing with the code. If it proves necessary, I'll also lobby for your removal from the team. earnestly, David. Tue, Apr 5, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Vic Fryzel <[email protected]> wrote: > David, > > I've been travelling so am just getting back to your post now. > > We clearly set the expectation that the API is experimental, as we continue > to develop it. > > The API functions, and I'm sorry that you're having a bad experience. > Please please avoid all of the sensationalist nonsense in your posts. This > list is for technical issues, not drama. > > -Vic > > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 8:31 AM, David Bullock <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Are you using the 'List' API or the (lately deprecated) 'Tables' API? >> What's your query? What do you get when you just hit the HTTP >> resource directly without Python in the way? >> >> By the way, don't feel afraid of asking a question about topics where >> the blessed documentation omits to mention something important. We >> API users must stand together against having to "discover and reverse >> engineer" the actual behaviour of the application, when there is no >> adequate contract given. Unfortunately, this generally means wasting >> precious time filing a bug against the documentation - generally a >> thankless task because the Google Labs boys have bad groupthink. >> >> Also by the way, the Spreadsheet API has been in 'Labs' without >> graduating for a number of years now. Yes, years. I wouldn't commit >> to it as anything more than an interesting way to bang you head on a >> wall - ie. no production apps needing to talk to spreadshehets, that >> couldn't suddenly stop using them if the need arose. >> >> cheers, >> David. >> >> >> On Mar 16, 2:30 am, Dustin Sampson <[email protected]> wrote: >> > I'm sure this topic has been beaten to death but ....Can someone clarify >> for >> > me >> > >> > If I have a table... >> > >> > Data: >> > A B C D >> > __________________________ >> > 1 | Ann >> > 2 | Tom >> > 3 | >> > 4 | Frank >> > (Using Python) >> > >> > Because row 3 has no data when I ask to get records, I'll only receive >> Ann >> > and Tom? Is there anyway of reading rows 1-4 and columns 1-n, by >> specifying >> > a range or is there some other means. Its kind of a deal breaker for me >> if >> > I can't. >> > >> > Thanks for any insight, >> > Dustin >> > >
