I have aquestion in relation to specifying the publishing priority on a Google Base entry.

I am posting entries into Google Base using raw HTTP and XML in a GWT application. Everything has been working fine (i.e. add, delete, update) until recently. I am aware of the changes that have been made to the publishing priority for each GBase entry that took effect on 3rd June 2008 and have consulted the description at http://code.google.com/apis/base/starting-out.html#PubPriority. When I posted some entries yesterday (16th July 2008) I noticed that they were not publishable and searchable for the max 12 hours and realised that this was as a result of the changes that have been made to the publishing priority (i.e. default is low and not high as before).

Based on this change I updated all newly created or updated entries with the recommended elements:

<entry xmlns:app='http://purl.org/atom/app#' xmlns:gm='http://base.google.com/ns-metadata/1.0'> ... <app:control> <gm:publishing_priority>high</gm:publishing_priority> </app:control> </entry>

I then tested my application to determine if the added entries were available and they were NOT (not even within a few minutes). I then attempted to troubleshoot the problem. The added entries are appearing correctly in the Google Base DashBoard with a status of "publishable and searchable" ( I am assuming that this status indicates availability through the API also; it did so before the publishing priority (PP) was changed). I then performed a query using the Google Base Interactive demo (http://www.google.com/base/api/demo/html/ demo.html) and noticed that the added entries were not being returned in the result feed even after a few minutes. Even when the publishing priority is set to high the entries do not seem to be available after a few minutes.

I was just wondering is there something that I have missed or is the Google team still working on changes to the publishing priority ? If the PP is set to high should the added/updated entries be available in a result feed after a few minutes ? It appears at the moment that they are not (based on my discussion above).

I would appreciate any help or guidance with this problem as it is causing significant problems for a live GBase application. The application is dependent on the entries added/updated to be available within a few minutes, not after a specified number of hours.