birthday field from contacts does not work

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What steps will reproduce the problem?

The python code below does not create the birthday field in a new contact.

    contact = gdata.contacts.ContactEntry()
    contact.title = atom.Title(text='Eric MyName')
    contact.content = atom.Content(text='A small note')
    contact.birthday = gdata.contacts.Birthday(when='2009-07-23')
    entry = client.CreateContact(contact)

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

I expect to see the birthday field in the gmail contact UI. I only see the
note in the new contact.

What version of the product are you using?
2.0.2

Please provide any additional information below.

When I add manually a birthday date in a contact from the gmail UI, I am
also unable to read the birthday for the python client.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by laeuf...@gmail.com on 25 Aug 2009 at 2:26

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Could I see the code you use to construct your client as well?

Original comment by jscud.w...@gmail.com on 1 Sep 2009 at 8:40

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I can confirm that neither reading nor writing Birthdays seems to work with 
python
gdata 2.0.5

My reading code

        # birthday
        if contact.birthday:
            birthday = contact.birthday.when
            addr.add_entry("birthday", birthday)

My writing code

        # 'birthday' in form "2010-01-01"
        if addr['birthday']:
            birthday = addr['birthday'][0]
            contact.birthday = gdata.contacts.Birthday(when=birthday)

addr is my own object to hold the info locally

I can roundtrip the birthday through local objects, but when I try to sync it 
to or
from google it just vanishes.

Possibly related to this, but the relation field does the same thing - ie isn't
synced to or from google.

Reading code

        # 'spouse', 'children'
        children = []
        if contact.relation:
            for relation in contact.relation:
                if relation.rel == 'spouse':
                    addr.add_entry("spouse", relation.text)
                elif relation.rel == 'child':
                    children.append(relation.text)
                else:
                    print "Unknown relation %s=%s" % (relation.rel, relation.text)
        if children:
            addr.add_entry("children", ", ".join(children))

Writing code

        # 'spouse', 'children'
        if addr['spouse']:
            contact.relation.append(gdata.contacts.Relation(text=addr['spouse'][0],
rel='spouse'))
        if addr['children']:
            for child in ",".join(addr['children']).split(","):
                contact.relation.append(gdata.contacts.Relation(text=child, rel='child'))

These roundtrip fine through local objects but don't sync to or from google.

These attributes were all introduced in Contacts API version 3.0 which may have
something to do with it

Original comment by nic...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2010 at 11:05

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This bug appears to be present in 2.0.6 also

Original comment by nic...@gmail.com on 4 Jan 2010 at 11:22

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This bug appears to be present in 2.0.7 also

Original comment by nic...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2010 at 1:55

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This problem still exists in 2.0.9

To replicate, apply this patch to the contacts_example.py

This will let you read and write birthdays

------------------------------------------------------------
--- contacts_example.py 2008-12-02 02:35:42.000000000 +0000
+++ contacts_example_ncw.py     2010-04-12 12:54:34.000000000 +0100
@@ -84,6 +84,7 @@
         else:
           value = extended_property.GetXmlBlobString()
         print '    Extended Property %s: %s' % (extended_property.name, value)
+      print '  Birthday %s' % (entry.birthday)
     return len(feed.entry) + ctr

   def PrintPaginatedFeed(self, feed, print_method):
@@ -167,12 +168,14 @@
     name = raw_input('Enter contact\'s name: ')
     notes = raw_input('Enter notes for contact: ')
     primary_email = raw_input('Enter primary email address: ')
+    birthday = raw_input('Birthday YYYY-MM-DD: ')

     new_contact = gdata.contacts.ContactEntry(title=atom.Title(text=name))
     new_contact.content = atom.Content(text=notes)
     # Create a work email address for the contact and use as primary.
     new_contact.email.append(gdata.contacts.Email(address=primary_email,
         primary='true', rel=gdata.contacts.REL_WORK))
+    new_contact.birthday = gdata.contacts.Birthday(when=birthday)
     entry = self.gd_client.CreateContact(new_contact)

     if entry:
------------------------------------------------------------

Now try it out with a test account

------------------------------------------------------------
Contacts Sample
1) List all of your contacts.
2) Create a contact.
3) Query contacts on updated time.
4) Modify a contact.
5) Delete a contact.
6) List all of your contact groups.
7) Query your groups on updated time.
8) Exit.

> 2
Enter contact's name: Test
Enter notes for contact: Test
Enter primary email address: Test@Test.com
Birthday YYYY-MM-DD: 1990-01-01
Creation successful!
ID for the new contact:
http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx%40googlemail.com/base/xx
xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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I checked this on the web interface - The contact was created but no
birthday was added.

I tried to read it back anyway with no luck

------------------------------------------------------------
> 3
Enter updated min (example: 2007-03-16T00:00:00): 2010-04-12T00:00:00

1 Test
    Test
    Test@Test.com
  Birthday None
------------------------------------------------------------

I then added a birthday using the web interface to the new contact and
tried to read it back with no luck

------------------------------------------------------------
> 3
Enter updated min (example: 2007-03-16T00:00:00): 2010-04-12T00:00:00

1 Test
    Test
    Test@Test.com
  Birthday None
------------------------------------------------------------

Original comment by nic...@gmail.com on 12 Apr 2010 at 12:06

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I just retested this with gdata-2.0.10 with the same results

Does anyone ever look at these bug reports?

Original comment by nic...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2010 at 4:13

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Actually I finally figured this one out...

When you create the contacts service, pass in some additional headers, and the
birthday field will work

gd_client = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsService(additional_headers =
{gdata.contacts.service.GDATA_VER_HEADER: 3})

This should be the default I think - all the documentation references API v3

Original comment by nic...@gmail.com on 2 Jun 2010 at 4:25

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nickcw, now birthday works fine, but how I can set contact full name?

contact.name = gdata.data.Name(
            given_name=gdata.data.GivenName(text=person.full_name),
            full_name=gdata.data.FullName(text=person.full_name)
        )

this code doesn't work :(

Original comment by Roman.Su...@gmail.com on 27 Jun 2010 at 1:04

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@Roman.Suprotkin

Doesn't look wrong...

I don't think you can see these fields in the web interface though.

How do you know it isn't working?  Do you get an error, or just can't read the 
data back?

Original comment by nic...@gmail.com on 28 Jun 2010 at 11:06

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@nickcw,

When I set contact name via web I see in XML (from web)

<ns0:title>Some Name</ns0:title>
<ns1:name>
 <ns1:fullName>Some Name</ns1:fullName>
 <ns1:givenName>Some Name</ns1:givenName>
</ns1:name>

I'm trying to set Full Name with code

    if not hasattr(contact, 'title') or not contact.title:
        contact.title = atom.Title()
    contact.title.text = person.full_name
    contact.name = gdata.data.Name(
            given_name=gdata.data.GivenName(text=person.full_name),
            full_name=gdata.data.FullName(text=person.full_name)
        )
    contact.nickname = gdata.contacts.Nickname(text=person.full_name)

As result I see only Nickname via web.
XML (from web) looks like

<ns0:title />
<ns2:nickname xmlns:ns2="http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008">Some 
Name</ns2:nickname>

There is no <ns1:name/> in XML

Original comment by Roman.Su...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 5:53

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http://code.google.com/intl/ru/apis/contacts/docs/3.0/migration_guide.html

* Add an HTTP version header (GData-Version: 3.0) to every HTTP request you 
send. 
* Replace the uses of atom:title in contact entries by uses of gd:name.
* Replace the uses of gd:postalAddress in contact and contact group entries by 
uses of gd:structuredPostalAddress.

Original comment by Roman.Su...@gmail.com on 29 Jun 2010 at 5:58

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How do you add an HTTP version header (GData-Version: 3.0) in Python?  The 
migration guide doesn't give an example of this.

Original comment by dpp.ph...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2010 at 3:28

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gd_client = gdata.contacts.service.ContactsService(additional_headers =
{gdata.contacts.service.GDATA_VER_HEADER: 3})

Original comment by Roman.Su...@gmail.com on 4 Oct 2010 at 6:29

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This has been fixed in gdata.contacts.data module.

Original comment by ala...@google.com on 7 Oct 2011 at 9:40

• Changed state: Fixed