I'm trying to implement some functionality using the Java API and tags, but finding that the tags seem to be inconsistently handled when uploading files to PicasaWeb. I do this:
1. Tag a photo with 'banana' in Picasa (the app) 2. Check that the tag exists using the Mac Preview app - the tag shows up clearly in the IPTC media keywords area 3. Upload the photo to PicasaWeb using the Java API 4. When I view the photo in PicasaWeb, the tags don't appear. 5. When I retrieve the photo using the API and examine the tags in the .MediaKeywords property, they're empty 6. But However, if I do this: 1. View a photo in PicasaWeb 2. Use the 'tag' icon to add a tag 3. Download the file using the Java API 4. View the file in Mac Preview or the Picasa application the tag I added shows up fine. What's going on? It basically seems like the tags are being ignored when uploaded via the API - so maybe the photos aren't being scanned for tags during the upload (and PicasaWeb seems to persist the tag somewhere other than the photo data store). The problem is, this means that tags are effectively broken online, and the only way to examine the tags is to download them and process the local image directly (which is crazy). I gather that search-by-tag has been broken for a year or two (this issue: https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4596&thanks=4596&ts=1369244817) - are the two related, and is there any likelihood it'll ever get fixed? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Picasa Web Albums API" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-picasa-data-api. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
