[PWA API] Re: Find photo by name - Jeff Fisher (Google) - com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api

5 messages in com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api[PWA API] Re: Find photo by name

From	Sent On	Attachments
VanTurenhout	11 Jul 2008 02:08
VanTurenhout	11 Jul 2008 03:03
Jeff Fisher (Google)	11 Jul 2008 15:46
VanTurenhout	13 Jul 2008 22:37
Jeff Fisher (Google)	14 Jul 2008 14:40

Subject:	[PWA API] Re: Find photo by name
From:	Jeff Fisher (Google) (api....@google.com)
Date:	07/14/2008 02:40:36 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-picasa-data-api

There isn't the ability to query by original filename in the API, so I think that's probably the only way you can implement such a thing.

Cheers, -Jeff

On Jul 13, 10:37 pm, VanTurenhout <VanT...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Jeff,

That is what i figured out, yes. But that's not the thing I looked for. I want to get the ID as one of the properties, after I found the photo by it's name.

Here's the thing: I have a database, with all kind's of paintings in it. One of the properties is it's picture-s name (only the name, not the picture itself). That corresponds to the filename in Picasa. So, I wrote a web-page, that can show all the information about the paintings, and, for the picture, I want to use the Google API to get the picture from the Picasa Album. Therefore, I need to have a method to search for the filename in Picasa, and then display it.

In the meantime, I found a way:

public string GetIdFromTitle(string title) { myService = new PicasaService("Service"); PhotoQuery q = new PhotoQuery(PicasaQuery.CreatePicasaUri("AlbumName")); PicasaFeed fd = myService.Query(q); PhotoAccessor ac1; string result = string.Empty; foreach (PicasaEntry et in fd.Entries) { if (et.Title.Text == title) { ac1 = new PhotoAccessor(et); result = ac1.Id; } } return result; }

But maybe there's more efficient way to do that.

Rob

On Jul 12, 12:46 am, "Jeff Fisher (Google)" <api....@google.com> wrote:

Hi Rob,

If you know the username, the albumname, and the photoID you can retrieve the photo like so:

PicasaQuery.CreatePicasaUri(username, albumname, photoid)

To get the photo ID on a photo entry you can use something like:

PhotoAccessor ac = new PhotoAccessor(entry); string photoId = ac.Id;

Cheers, -Jeff

On Jul 11, 3:03 am, VanTurenhout <VanT...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

I use this method to find a photo by tag, but I need to have a method to find a photo by it's filename (so I can get the ID and display it)

myService = new PicasaService("foo"); PhotoQuery q = new PhotoQuery(PicasaQuery.CreatePicasaUri("albumname")); q.Tags = "foo, bar" PicasaFeed fd = myService.Query(q); string result = string.Empty; foreach(PicasaEntry et in fd.Entries) { result = et.Title.Text; } return result;

Can anybody help me with that?

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