Hello,
It looks like we were getting empty strings from the Backend and not
sanitizing those. I've pushed a change to fix this, and should be working
now.
Let me know if you see anything else askew.
Thanks,
-Mike
On Monday, March 26, 2012 5:22:25 AM UTC-7, Alexander Kachkaev wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> Trying to work with Picasa API I have faced an issue that seems not to be
> related to my code, but is caused by java library/API response stack.
>
> Here is my code:
> picasaService = new PicasawebService("exampleCo-exampleApp-1.0");
> picasaService.setUserCredentials(picasaUser, picasaPassword);
> baseSearchUrl = new URL("
> https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all";);
>
> URL baseSearchUrl = new URL("
> https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all";);
> Query myQuery = new com.google.gdata.client.Query(baseSearchUrl);
> myQuery.setStringCustomParameter("kind", "photo");
> myQuery.setMaxResults(1000);
> // No additional parameters - just asking for any first 1000 photos
>
> AlbumFeed searchResultsFeed = picasaService.query(myQuery,
> AlbumFeed.class);
>
> Here is the url that is requested:
> https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/all?max-results=1000&kind=photo
>
> And here is the Exception:
> Exception in thread "main" com.google.gdata.util.ParseException: [Line 1,
> Column 531149, element name] name must have a value
> at
> com.google.gdata.util.XmlParser.throwParseException(XmlParser.java:730)
> at com.google.gdata.util.XmlParser.parse(XmlParser.java:693)
> at com.google.gdata.util.XmlParser.parse(XmlParser.java:576)
> at com.google.gdata.data.BaseFeed.parseAtom(BaseFeed.java:867)
> ...
> Caused by: com.google.gdata.util.ParseException: name must have a value
> at
> com.google.gdata.data.Person$AtomHandler$NameHandler.processEndElement(
> Person.java:251)
> at com.google.gdata.util.XmlParser.endElement(XmlParser.java:1004)
> at org.xml.sax.helpers.ParserAdapter.endElement(ParserAdapter.java:626)
> at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(AbstractSAXParser.java:593)
> ...
>
> Looks like the exception fires, because the parser does not expect to see
> an empty node name like this:
> ...<author type='owner'>*<name/>*<uri>
> https://picasaweb.google.com/107435654944616411853</uri><email>1074356...
>
> The problem has been there for about 2 years. I have found a blog article
> dated June 2010
> http://www.curiousattemptbunny.com/2010/07/comgooglegdatautilparseexception-name.htmlwhere
> it is suggested to build own gdata-core-1.0.jar replacing just one
> line of code in Person.NameHandler class, but that's too time-consuming
> for everyone to do. What other ways of overcoming such issue could be
> suggested? Is there a particular reason why google still has not fixed it?
>
> Kind regards
> Alexander
>
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