List of recreated album names that were previously deleted

Question

Background

I would like to list all the albums for my account matching the specified name.

Problem

After deleting the album and then re-creating the album with the same name, the code for $albumQuery->setAlbumName( ... ) to find the name of the album failed with 404, although the album was successfully created.

The following code works fine:

 // This is correct -- adding photographs to albums works. $client = $this->login( $user, $pass, $picasa ); $picasa = $this->newPhotographService( $client ); $albumQuery = $picasa->newAlbumQuery(); $albumQuery->setUser( $user ); $albumQuery->setAlbumName( "17" ); // This is the literal name of the album. $albumQuery->setMaxResults( 10 ); 

This line, which exists immediately after calling setMaxResults , is not executed:

 $albumFeed = $picasa->getAlbumFeed( $albumQuery ); 

When executing the above line, the following error occurs:

Exception: expected response code 200, received 404

Update # 1

The following code works, but not sequentially:

 echo "Search for the album named $accountId for $user\n"; $albumQuery = $picasa->newAlbumQuery(); $albumQuery->setUser( $user ); $albumQuery->setAlbumName( "ALBUM17" ); $albumQuery->setMaxResults( 1 ); $albumId = null; try { echo "\nGet album feed from albumQuery.\n"; $albumFeed = $picasa->getAlbumFeed( $albumQuery ); // The feed returns a list of photos; each photo has an album ID. foreach( $albumFeed as $key => $entry ) { $albumId = $entry->getGphotoAlbumId(); } echo "\nFound album ID: ALBUM17\n"; } catch( Zend_Gdata_App_Exception $ex ) { echo "\nError: " . $ex->getMessage() . "\n"; echo "\nCreate album.\n"; // Create the album. $albumId = $this->createAlbum( $picasa, "ALBUM17" ); echo "\nCreated album ID: ALBUM17\n"; } 

Performs as expected until the album is deleted. When you recreate an album that has been deleted, it seems that the API cannot find the recreated name. As a result, the above code creates new albums with the same name, which is undesirable.

Update # 2

This seems like a mistake; I registered a problem:

https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=4516

Question

How do I get the album ID using the Picasa API for an album that has been deleted and then recreated?

Answer 1

I am not familiar with this particular API, however ...

What usually happens is that you CANNOT recreate the recording. As soon as you delete it, it has disappeared.

So, you need to do to get the ID of the new album that you just created, and then use it in your code.

It also seems that you are confusing the album name with its identifier.