Question to "Link must have an 'href' attribute"

[patrick_try]

Hello together,

I'm actually working on a manuell Insert to GBase. I fill the GBase-API with that code:

function createOrEditEntry($entry) {
  $newEntry = $entry;

  $newEntry->category['scheme'] = 'http://base.google.com/categories/itemtypes';
  $newEntry->category['term'] = 'products';

  $newEntry->title = utf8_encode($_POST['title']);
  $newEntry->content  = utf8_encode($_POST['description']);
  $newEntry->{'g:image_link'} = $_POST['image_link'];
 
  $newEntry->{'g:item_type'} = 'Produkte';
  $newEntry->{'g:price'} = utf8_encode($_POST['preis']);

  $newEntry->{'g:target_country'} = 'DE';
  $newEntry->{'g:item_language'} = 'DE';
  $newEntry->language = 'de-DE';
 
 
  $newEntry->link = $_POST['link']; //<-- Poblem!

  return $newEntry;
}


And all works fine, without the link. :-((

If I want to post it I always get the message: "Insertion failed: Post to Google failed. Reason: [Line 2, Column 774, element link] Link must have an 'href' attribute."

Does anyone know how I can send the 'href'-attribute with that code?

Thx in advance,
Patrick

[Ryan Boyd-3]

Hi Patrick,

I'm assuming you're trying to define the main link for the item's webpage representation. 

Here's how to set the link, with the rel, href and type:
  $newEntry->link['href'] = $_POST['link'];
  $newEntry->link['rel'] = 'alternate';
  $newEntry->link['type'] = 'text/html';

Cheers,
-Ryan

On Feb 17, 2008 2:43 PM, patrick_try <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hello together,

I'm actually working on a manuell Insert to GBase. I fill the GBase-API with
that code:

function createOrEditEntry($entry) {
 $newEntry = $entry;

 $newEntry->category['scheme'] =
'http://base.google.com/categories/itemtypes';
 $newEntry->category['term'] = 'products';

 $newEntry->title = utf8_encode($_POST['title']);
 $newEntry->content  = utf8_encode($_POST['description']);
 $newEntry->{'g:image_link'} = $_POST['image_link'];

 $newEntry->{'g:item_type'} = 'Produkte';
 $newEntry->{'g:price'} = utf8_encode($_POST['preis']);

 $newEntry->{'g:target_country'} = 'DE';
 $newEntry->{'g:item_language'} = 'DE';
 $newEntry->language = 'de-DE';


 $newEntry->link = $_POST['link']; //<-- Poblem!

 return $newEntry;
}


And all works fine, without the link. :-((

If I want to post it I always get the message: "Insertion failed: Post to
Google failed. Reason: [Line 2, Column 774, element link] Link must have an
'href' attribute."

Does anyone know how I can send the 'href'-attribute with that code?

Thx in advance,
Patrick
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[patrick_try]

Hi Ryan,

thx for the really fast answer. Yes, I mean the main link for the item's webpage.

That was my first idea, too. I was trying that again and getting only the message: "Insertion failed: Post to Google failed. Reason:"
No other message and the item isn't listed in GBase.

How could I find out what's the problem or does anyone know this reaction?

Bye, Patrick

[Ryan Boyd-3]

Hi Patrick,

Is the only change between a working call and a failing call the addition of the link?

Is it possible there are some special characters in the link which aren't getting encoded?  I think the link I tried successfully was just http://www.google.com/ (and I copied/pasted the code into the e-mail from a running copy).

The 'reason' is usually the body of the HTTP response -- so, it doesn't appear the server is giving much to go on here (other than perhaps a status code which isn't being printed).  Can you send me the results of $newEntry->saveXML() ?

Cheers,
-Ryan

On Feb 18, 2008 12:59 AM, patrick_try <[hidden email]> wrote:

Hi Ryan,

thx for the really fast answer. Yes, I mean the main link for the item's
webpage.

That was my first idea, too. I was trying that again and getting only the

message: "Insertion failed: Post to Google failed. Reason:"

No other message and the item isn't listed in GBase.

How could I find out what's the problem or does anyone know this reaction?
:confused:

Bye, Patrick
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[patrick_try]

THX for the help.

Yes, only the Link seems to be problematic. Even the "http://www.google.com/"-Link doesn't work.

The generated TEST-XML-File before it fills the GBase-API is:
---------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0"><category scheme="http://base.google.com/categories/itemtypes" term="products"/><title>Tessst 999</title><content>Schöner Läbün</content><g:image_link xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">http://shop2.o2online.de/nw/assets/shop/bilder/produkte/o2/o2-genion-1092-000007-00-big-bild.jpg</g:image_link><g:item_type xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">Produkte</g:item_type><g:price xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">99,87 €</g:price><g:target_country xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">DE</g:target_country><g:item_language xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">DE</g:item_language><language>de-DE</language><link href="http://www.google.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/></entry>

---------

The Euro-Sign could stand there in Text "Eur", too - that doens't change anything.

Ryan Boyd-3 wrote:

Hi Patrick,

Is the only change between a working call and a failing call the addition of
the link?

Is it possible there are some special characters in the link which aren't
getting encoded?  I think the link I tried successfully was just
http://www.google.com/ (and I copied/pasted the code into the e-mail from a
running copy).

The 'reason' is usually the body of the HTTP response -- so, it doesn't
appear the server is giving much to go on here (other than perhaps a status
code which isn't being printed).  Can you send me the results of
$newEntry->saveXML() ?

Cheers,
-Ryan



On Feb 18, 2008 12:59 AM, patrick_try <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> Hi Ryan,
>
> thx for the really fast answer. Yes, I mean the main link for the item's
> webpage.
>
> That was my first idea, too. I was trying that again and getting only the
> message: "Insertion failed: Post to Google failed. Reason:"
> No other message and the item isn't listed in GBase.
>
> How could I find out what's the problem or does anyone know this reaction?
> :confused:
>
> Bye, Patrick
> --
> View this message in context:
> http://www.nabble.com/Question-to-%22Link-must-have-an-%27href%27-attribute%22-tp15535897s16154p15541010.html
> Sent from the Zend gdata mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>
>

[Ryan Boyd-3]

Hi Patrick,

I just tried inserting this entry for my account and the only error I got was:
  <error type="data" field="price" reason="Invalid currency: &quot;€&quot;. Please enter an ISO 4217 currency code. http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/supplemental.html" />

After changing the Euro-Sign to EUR, or eliminating it and adding a g:currency element with the same, the entry inserted correctly.  However, you mentioned this didn't work for you, so I'm not sure what's next.

I bcc'd someone who knows Base really well and will also try and find other methods of debugging this and let you know. 

Thanks,
-Ryan

On Feb 20, 2008 1:26 AM, patrick_try <[hidden email]> wrote:

THX for the help.

Yes, only the Link seems to be problematic. Even the
"http://www.google.com/"-Link doesn't work.

The generated TEST-XML-File before it fills the GBase-API is:

---------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"

xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0"><category

scheme="http://base.google.com/categories/itemtypes"

term="products"/><title>Tessst 999</title><content>Schöner
Läbün</content><g:image_link
xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">http://shop2.o2online.de/nw/assets/shop/bilder/produkte/o2/o2-genion-1092-000007-00-big-bild.jpg</g:image_link><g:item_type
xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">Produkte</g:item_type><g:price
xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">99,87 €</g:price><g:target_country
xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">DE</g:target_country><g:item_language
xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">DE</g:item_language><language>de-DE</language><link
href="http://www.google.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/></entry>

---------

The Euro-Sign could stand there in Text "Eur", too - that doens't change
anything.

Ryan Boyd-3 wrote:
>
> Hi Patrick,
>
> Is the only change between a working call and a failing call the addition
> of
> the link?
>
> Is it possible there are some special characters in the link which aren't
> getting encoded?  I think the link I tried successfully was just
> http://www.google.com/ (and I copied/pasted the code into the e-mail from
> a
> running copy).
>
> The 'reason' is usually the body of the HTTP response -- so, it doesn't
> appear the server is giving much to go on here (other than perhaps a
> status
> code which isn't being printed).  Can you send me the results of
> $newEntry->saveXML() ?
>
> Cheers,
> -Ryan
>
>
>
> On Feb 18, 2008 12:59 AM, patrick_try <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi Ryan,
>>
>> thx for the really fast answer. Yes, I mean the main link for the item's
>> webpage.
>>
>> That was my first idea, too. I was trying that again and getting only the
>> message: "Insertion failed: Post to Google failed. Reason:"
>> No other message and the item isn't listed in GBase.
>>
>> How could I find out what's the problem or does anyone know this
>> reaction?
>> :confused:
>>
>> Bye, Patrick
>> --
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>> http://www.nabble.com/Question-to-%22Link-must-have-an-%27href%27-attribute%22-tp15535897s16154p15541010.html
>> Sent from the Zend gdata mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
>>
>>
>
>

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[patrick_try]

Hi Ryan,

it works!

The error was on the one hand the Euro-Sign, but also the URI. Sometimes it works sometimes not. I try to find the reason and post it here.
Never forget: GBase self is BETA and they have some problems also. I cannot delete my test-items in my g-Account. But I informed Google, we'll see what happend.
So far, THANK YOU VERY MUCH!

Bye,Patrick

Ryan Boyd-3 wrote:

Hi Patrick,

I just tried inserting this entry for my account and the only error I got
was:
  <error type="data" field="price" reason="Invalid currency: "€".
Please enter an ISO 4217 currency code.
http://www.unicode.org/cldr/data/diff/supplemental/supplemental.html" />

After changing the Euro-Sign to EUR, or eliminating it and adding a
g:currency element with the same, the entry inserted correctly.  However,
you mentioned this didn't work for you, so I'm not sure what's next.

I bcc'd someone who knows Base really well and will also try and find other
methods of debugging this and let you know.

Thanks,
-Ryan


On Feb 20, 2008 1:26 AM, patrick_try <[e-mail]> wrote:

>
> THX for the help.
>
> Yes, only the Link seems to be problematic. Even the
> "http://www.google.com/"-Link doesn't work.
>
> The generated TEST-XML-File before it fills the GBase-API is:
> ---------
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"
> xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0"><category
> scheme="http://base.google.com/categories/itemtypes"
> term="products"/><title>Tessst 999</title><content>Schöner
> Läbün</content><g:image_link
> xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">
> http://shop2.o2online.de/nw/assets/shop/bilder/produkte/o2/o2-genion-1092-000007-00-big-bild.jpg
> </g:image_link><g:item_type
> xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">Produkte</g:item_type><g:price
> xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0">99,87 €</g:price><g:target_country
> xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0
> ">DE</g:target_country><g:item_language
> xmlns:g="http://base.google.com/ns/1.0
> ">DE</g:item_language><language>de-DE</language><link
> href="http://www.google.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html"/></entry>
>
> ---------
>
> The Euro-Sign could stand there in Text "Eur", too - that doens't change
> anything.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Ryan Boyd-3 wrote:
> >
> > Hi Patrick,
> >
> > Is the only change between a working call and a failing call the
> addition
> > of
> > the link?
> >
> > Is it possible there are some special characters in the link which
> aren't
> > getting encoded?  I think the link I tried successfully was just
> > http://www.google.com/ (and I copied/pasted the code into the e-mail
> from
> > a
> > running copy).
> >
> > The 'reason' is usually the body of the HTTP response -- so, it doesn't
> > appear the server is giving much to go on here (other than perhaps a
> > status
> > code which isn't being printed).  Can you send me the results of
> > $newEntry->saveXML() ?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -Ryan
> >
> >
> >
> > On Feb 18, 2008 12:59 AM, patrick_try <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Hi Ryan,
> >>
> >> thx for the really fast answer. Yes, I mean the main link for the
> item's
> >> webpage.
> >>
> >> That was my first idea, too. I was trying that again and getting only
> the
> >> message: "Insertion failed: Post to Google failed. Reason:"
> >> No other message and the item isn't listed in GBase.
> >>
> >> How could I find out what's the problem or does anyone know this
> >> reaction?
> >> :confused:
> >>
> >> Bye, Patrick
> >> --
> >> View this message in context:
> >>
> http://www.nabble.com/Question-to-%22Link-must-have-an-%27href%27-attribute%22-tp15535897s16154p15541010.html
> >> Sent from the Zend gdata mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
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>
>

[patrick_try]

The problem was, that in the URL contains special characters. Not really, but if there stands e.g. ...uuml... sees Google "& u u m l ;" what means ü

Hard to find out, but good to know