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Using GData Python libraries, version 2.0.18

Attempting to retrieve contact list using the Service approach (not Client like the sample app). It appears that the return is mapped to a ContactEntry (good), but it gives error when I try to access the name attribute:

AttributeError: 'ContactEntry' object has no attribute 'name'

from gdata.contacts.service import ContactsService
(...)
        self.client = ContactsService(source='appname', additional_headers=additional_headers )
        feed = self.client.GetContactsFeed(uri=query.ToUri())

self.client is a gdata.contacts.service

GetContactsFeed uses 

def GetContactsFeed(self, uri=None):
    uri = uri or self.GetFeedUri()
    return self.Get(uri, converter=gdata.contacts.ContactsFeedFromString)

The sample code uses desired_class=gdata.contacts.data.ContactsFeed

Seems like there should be a name attribute. Is my syntax wrong?

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  • Please, provide [Short, Self Contained, Correct, Example](http://www.sscce.org/) and full traceback. – zero323 Oct 16 '13 at 20:58

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Ok, here is the issue for the python contacts sample vs my implementation: in gdata/sample/contacts/contacts_example.py it uses gdata.contacts.Client which (long chain to it) calls for the atom classes to use desired_class=gdata.contacts.data.ContactsFeed. The service, as pointed out in the question, uses converter=gdata.contacts.ContactsFeedFromString.
This converter comes from the init file, src/gdata/contacts/init.py, as do the class definitions. Obviously at this point, you know what's coming -- the classes for the xml in the initializer do not match the ones in the data file. I added these missing, incorrect ones in to initializer and things worked as expected. Alternatively, changing to use desired_class would do it too (at some point you'd have to map to converter...isn't supported directly in service.py), or adding converter to data.ContactsFeed, etc.

Hope this helps someone.

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