400 Error: Request mask can not be empty

[colingoldberg]

The page - authSample.html - fails with a 400 error.

I copied the file as is - except filling in the apiKey and clientId.

{
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Request mask can not be empty. Valid paths are: [person.addresses, person.age_ranges, person.biographies, person.birthdays, person.bragging_rights, person.cover_photos, person.email_addresses, person.events, person.genders, person.im_clients, person.interests, person.locales, person.memberships, person.metadata, person.names, person.nicknames, person.occupations, person.organizations, person.phone_numbers, person.photos, person.relations, person.relationship_interests, person.relationship_statuses, person.residences, person.skills, person.taglines, person.urls].",
"status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
}
}

"Request mask" is unclear - where does this apply?

[bochunz]

Looks like there's a recent change in the People API. I have fixed the sample, please try with the new version. Thanks for pointing out the problem.

[Aaron-Zhao]

On top of this, to include multiple fields you just separate the paths by comma per this reference.

For example,
{ 'resourceName': 'people/me', 'requestMask.includeField': 'person.names,person.photos,person.email_addresses' }

I noticed that adding space after comma, such as 'person.names, person.photos', will give you error ' person.photos' not vaild.. as the spaces were not trimmed after parsing. It would be nice if you guys check for spaces, as comma separated without space gets hard to read pretty quickly if you have more fields. Or better yet, if we can just pass an array instead of a string.

[nkaki]

I've tried both:
'requestMask':{'includeField':'person.email_addresses'}

'requestMask.includeField':'person.email_addresses'}
and I get this error

Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "requestMask": Cannot bind query parameter. 'requestMask' is a message type. Parameters can only be bound to primitive types.

I tried version 13.0.0 and 19.0.0

[bochunz]

@nkaki I think your second example should work. What error did you get from trying the second example?

[nkaki]

I use:

people.people.connections.list({
    pageSize: 500,
    resourceName: 'people/me',
    auth: oauth2Client,
    requestMask:{'includeField':'person.email_addresses'},
    fields: ['connections(resourceName),nextPageToken']
})

For
'requestMask':{'includeField':'person.email_addresses'}
I get:
Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name "requestMask": Cannot bind query parameter. 'requestMask' is a message type. Parameters can only be bound to primitive types.

For
'requestMask.includeField':'person.email_addresses'}
I get:
Request mask can not be empty. Valid paths are: [person.addresses, person.age_ranges, person.biographies, person.birthdays, person.bragging_rights, person.cover_photos, person.email_addresses, person.events, person.genders, person.im_clients, person.interests, person.locales, person.memberships, person.metadata, person.names, person.nicknames, person.occupations, person.organizations, person.phone_numbers, person.photos, person.relations, person.relationship_interests, person.relationship_statuses, person.residences, person.skills, person.taglines, person.urls].

[nkaki]

Hello, has anyone looked at this issue?

[Blamo27]

@nkaki

gapi.client.people.people.get({
  'resourceName': 'people/me',
  'requestMask.includeField': 'person.names,person.emailAddresses,person.genders,person.birthdays'
 })

[Blamo27]

You can get the list there : http://i.imgur.com/6SMn4UH.png

[nkaki]

Now I get this error for both person.emailAddresses and person.email_addresses

personFields mask is required. Please specify one or more valid paths. Valid paths are documented at https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people/get.

[bochunz]

@nkaki I think @Blamo27 's format is correct. Have you tried the exact same syntax in @Blamo27 's example?

[nkaki]

I get this error when I use the same syntax in @Blamo27 's example Requested entity was not found. using people.people.get

But I want to get the list of people in the contacts for the authorized user, so shouldn't I use people.people.connections.list?

[Blamo27]

@nkaki Maybe try this

people.people.connections.list({
    'resourceName': 'people/me',
    'requestMask.includeField': 'person.emailAddresses'
})

[Blamo27]

No space inside the string 'person.emailAddresses' /!\

[nkaki]

@bochunz and @Blamo27 Thanks it solved it !!