Re: Can clients count on blogUserInfos.userId having a "g" prefix?

Thanks, Brett. I ended up shipping an update with this assumption in place 
(stripping only non-numeric characters from the user ID to get the "real" 
ID for Picasa), and now I am running into a problem now with some of my 
users whose user ID is reported without any "g" or any other character 
around a numeric string. In that case I am using the numeric string 
verbatim as the user ID and Picasa reports an error:

"Invalid length for obfuscated ID: [the ID]"

Clearly I need to do something to massage the value into a usable string, 
but I have no idea what to do. Accepting that you can't make any promises 
about internal behavior, do you have any advise for how I might reliably 
get a user ID that is predictably usable with the Picasa API?

Daniel


On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 10:46:07 PM UTC-5, Brett Morgan wrote:
>
> Hey Daniel,
>
> The details you are looking at are a specific internal implementation, and 
> always open to change. Something I've learned during my years at Google is 
> that change is the only constant.
>
> So yeah, no. I'm not willing to make any explicit guarantees about the 
> future stability of an internal implementation. It will change, just a 
> question of when. Thanks!
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 10:42 AM Daniel Jalkut <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> I'm using the blogUserInfos struct as explorable here:
>>
>>
>> https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/blogger/v3/blogger.blogUserInfos.get
>>
>> I'm determining the user ID and photo album ID for a blog, so I can 
>> upload images on the user's behalf from my blogging app.
>>
>> The userId field in my tests comes back with something like:
>>
>> "userId": "g840528510601118361226", 
>>
>> But when I go to request an album from Picasa, it seems to want only the 
>> portion specified after the "g", for example to access a specific album:
>>
>>
>> https://picasaweb.google.com/data/feed/api/user/840528510601118361226/albumid/.
>> ..
>>
>> It seems like the numeric portion of the user ID is the only meaningful 
>> part to Picasa's API Is the g supposed to be some kind of namespacing 
>> marker? Will I ever get a userId back that doesn't match this format?
>>
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Daniel
>>
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