Google App Engine: The API package 'search' or call 'IndexDocument()' was not found

Question

Using Google App Engine's Search API, I am trying to index some document into a test index. I am using the code sample given on the Google App Engine official documentation. But when I try to run the snippet below. I get the following error when I tr to put a document via index.put:

Exception in thread "main" com.google.apphosting.api.ApiProxy$CallNotFoundException: The API package 'search' or call 'IndexDocument()' was not found. at com.google.apphosting.api.ApiProxy$1.get(ApiProxy.java:179) at com.google.apphosting.api.ApiProxy$1.get(ApiProxy.java:177) at com.google.appengine.api.utils.FutureWrapper.get(FutureWrapper.java:88) at com.google.appengine.api.utils.FutureWrapper.get(FutureWrapper.java:88) at com.google.appengine.api.search.FutureHelper.getInternal(FutureHelper.java:73) at com.google.appengine.api.search.FutureHelper.quietGet(FutureHelper.java:32) at com.google.appengine.api.search.IndexImpl.put(IndexImpl.java:486) at test.service.SearchingService.indexADocument(SearchingService.java:52)

Here's the code snippet:

 IndexSpec indexSpec = IndexSpec.newBuilder().setName(indexName).build();

          SearchService service = SearchServiceFactory.getSearchService(
                   SearchServiceConfig.newBuilder().setDeadline(10.0).setNamespace("geeky").build());
          Index index = service.getIndex(indexSpec);



          final int maxRetry = 3;
          int attempts = 0;
          int delay = 2;
          while (true) {
            try {

              index.put(document); // ERROR!!!!!!!!!!
            } catch (PutException e) {
              if (StatusCode.TRANSIENT_ERROR.equals(e.getOperationResult().getCode())
                  && ++attempts < maxRetry) { // retrying
                Thread.sleep(delay * 1000);
                delay *= 2; // easy exponential backoff
                continue;
              } else {
                throw e; // otherwise throw
              }
            }
            break;
          }

        }

I am using appengine-java-sdk-1.9.18 with Eclipse Kepler. It doesn't matter if I run the code on a local dev server or in production hosted on appspot. I get the same error. I am already authenticated in eclipse to my google account, and am able to push my code into production via eclipse. Has anybody seen this error before?

Are you doing anything with threads? This could happen if this code is not executing on the thread that received the HTTP request. — emcmanus, Jul 18 '16 at 22:54
@emcmanus No, I am just using the sample code for testing how the indexing works in a single thread. I didn't find any particular configuration that was needed to make the indexing work, so just tried executing the above code. — apurva.nandan, Jul 20 '16 at 06:41

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 16 '16 at 12:50

So there are few things to take care of when trying to call the Search API. The first error in my setup was that I was using an older version of GAE SDK (1.9.18).

After fixing that, I still had errors when trying to index the documents. I had the search query function called from the appengine context but my indexing caused the same error because it ran from a 'main' function. One should always run all the functions of the Search API from within the appengine context.

Google App Engine: The API package 'search' or call 'IndexDocument()' was not found

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