There are many reserved identifiers in the google query language. If
you want to use one of them as the name of a field, you have to quote
it with backticks in your queries: `datetime`, for example. But better
to just avoid them, in my opinion...

Mark

On Sep 29, 11:36 pm, Robert Brewer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm writing a data source using the Google Java data source library. I
> have run into a strange problem with column identifiers. My data table
> consists of a column of DATETIME values, followed by two columns of
> NUMBER values. If the identifier for the DATETIME column is
> "timestamp", "timeStamp", "dateTime" and a few other things I tried,
> any select query I make using that column identifier returns a big
> error message. The raw JSON output is reproduced below (hopefully
> Google Groups doesn't mangle it):
>
> google.visualization.Query.setResponse
> ({version:'0.6',status:'error',errors:
> [{reason:'invalid_query',message:'Invalid
> query',detailed_message:'Query error: Encountered \u0022 \u0022,\u0022
> \u0022, \u0022\u0022 at line 1, column 16.\nWas expecting one of:\n
> \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...
> \n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL
> \u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n
> \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...
> \n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL
> \u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n
> \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...
> \n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL
> \u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n
> \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...
> \n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL
> \u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n
> \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...
> \n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL
> \u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n
> \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...
> \n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL
> \u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n
> \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...
> \n    \u003cSTRING_LITERAL\u003e ...\n    '}]});
>
> If use "foo", "thyme", or "dayte" or other identifiers for that
> column, everything works fine. Are there are some reserved identifiers
> that we should avoid using, or is this just a bug? It's easy enough to
> work around this problem by picking another name, but the above error
> message doesn't exactly scream out 'change your identifier name'. If
> there are reserved identifiers we should avoid, a list of them would
> be nice.
>
> I should mention that I'm quite the Javascript newbie, so if this is
> something that should be obvious if you know Javascript, then I
> apologize. However, this processing is happening inside the Java
> library before it even gets interpreted by the browser, so I'm not
> sure how Javascript would come into the picture.
>
> Mahalo!
>
> --
> Robert Brewer                        http://excitedcuriosity.wordpress.com
> PhD Student, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Computer Science Dept
> Research Assistant in Renewable Energy and Island Sustainability
>                          http://reis.manoa.hawaii.edu
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