[Google-Base-API] Re: Does crowding by vin work? - Eric (Google) - com.googlegroups.google-base-data-api

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maga	09 Jun 2008 21:40
Eric (Google)	10 Jun 2008 18:22

Subject:	[Google-Base-API] Re: Does crowding by vin work?
From:	Eric (Google) (api....@google.com)
Date:	06/10/2008 06:22:51 PM
List:	com.googlegroups.google-base-data-api

Hi maga,

The API does support crowding by vin: http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets?bq=[item%20type:%20vehicles][vin(text)]&crowdby=vin(text):1

Although, it's somewhat difficult to verify this query is actually returning 1 listing/vin number. Your Java snippet looks correct to me.

Can you verify the GoogleBaseQuery query you're creating is exactly like I have above?

Eric

On Jun 9, 9:40 pm, maga <aga...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello,

I am having trouble getting results crowded by vin when searching the snippets feed for vehicles (the item type).

Does anyone know if this currently works? I know you can't sort by text attributes, but I thought crowding by text attributes should work. I am using the Java Client API provided by Google Base. I currently set up the query as (relevant code posted):

GoogleBaseQuery query = new GoogleBaseQuery(FeedURLFactory.getDefault().getSnippetsFeedURL());

query.setGoogleBaseQuery("[item type: vehicles] [vin(text)]"); query.setCrowdingBy("vin(text):1");

However I am still seeing duplicate listings per vin in the results.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Hopefully I was clear in the description.

Thanks!