Documentation for people v1 API `create_contact` has unused kwarg `parent`

[edilson-silva]

I am trying to create a contact, but I am getting the following error message.

Exception Class: TypeError
Exception Message: Got an unexpected keyword argument "parent"

Lib version: 1.2

import httplib2
from apiclient.discovery import build
from oauth2client.file import Storage

storage = Storage('session.dat')
credentials = storage.get()

http = httplib2.Http()
credentials.authorize(http)

created_contacts = list()

new_contact = {
    'names': [
        {
            'displayName': 'Test Contact',
            'givenName': 'Test Contact',
            'displayNameLastFirst': 'Test Contact'
        }
    ],
    'phoneNumbers': [
        {
            'value': '+55 11 99999-9999',
            'canonicalForm': '+55 11 99999-9999'
        }
    ]
}

contact_info = build(serviceName='people', version='v1', http=http) \
    .people() \
    .createContact(parent='people/me', body=new_contact) \
    .execute()

[busunkim96]

@edilson-silva

Oddly parent is listed as a kwarg but there is no more information about it in the generated docs. It also isn't in the REST documentation. That may be a bug in the documentation generator. Can you try removing parent?

This is unrelated to the question, but please use a different library for credentials storage as oauth2client is deprecated.

[bertin0]

I experience the same issue unfortunately.

[busunkim96]

@bertin0 can you try sending a request without parent?

contact_info = build(serviceName='people', version='v1', http=http) \
    .people() \
    .createContact(body=new_contact) \
    .execute()

[bertin0]

I just checked and it seems to work. Thanks for the workaround. (Why didn't I think about this?)

[busunkim96]

Thanks for reporting back! It looks like this is a documentation bug.