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Tommy Hart'no
Tommy Hart'no

Reputation: 123

Google People API cannot get birthday year

this is my first question in stackoverflow. I have a problem with Google People API when I'm trying to get user birthday year. Here's the log from my logcat.

D/FitPartners: {"date":{"day":20,"month":1},"metadata":{"primary":true,"source":{"id":"1....41","type":"PROFILE"}}}

As you can see, I can get the month and day just fine. But, there's no year in there. Even when I'm using google Try it! from https://developers.google.com/people/api/rest/v1/people/get. The response don't give the year too.

Response

200 OK

- Show headers -

{
 "resourceName": "people/1.......41",
 "etag": "r....a4o=",
 "birthdays": [
  {
   "metadata": {
    "primary": true,
    "source": {
     "type": "PROFILE",
     "id": "1........41"
    }
   },
   "date": {
    "month": 1,
    "day": 20
   }
  }
 ]
}

I've been trying to figure out about this and searching from stackoverflow for 4 days before deciding to make a questions. Please help.

Upvotes: 7

Views: 2526

Answers (3)

Hirsch Singhal
Hirsch Singhal

Reputation: 168

One additional reason for a missing birth year is if your birthday is Jan 1, 1970. In that case, the API will not return your birthday.

If you have disabled year display on your Google plus profile, then PROFILE will return Jan 1, and ACCOUNT will still return nothing.

Upvotes: 0

thanhbinh84
thanhbinh84

Reputation: 18454

People API returns 2 birthdays, the first birthday only has day and month, the second has also year. Here is the snippet for java code 

public static String getBirthday(Person person) {
        try {
            List<Birthday> birthdayList = person.getBirthdays();
            if (birthdayList == null) return Utils.EMPTY_STRING;
            Date date = null;
            for (Birthday birthday : birthdayList) {
                date = birthday.getDate();
                if (date != null && date.size() >= 3) break; // 3 means included day, month and year
                else date = null;
            }
            if (date == null) return Utils.EMPTY_STRING;
            Calendar calendar = Calendar.getInstance();
            calendar.set(date.getYear(), date.getMonth() - 1, date.getDay());
            return Utils.convertDateToString(calendar);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            Utils.handleException(e);
            return Utils.EMPTY_STRING;
        }
    }

Upvotes: -1

Amos Yuen
Amos Yuen

Reputation: 1459

If you want to verify the person's age, perhaps see if the age range field meets your needs. You can get it by requesting the https://www.googleapis.com/auth/profile.agerange.read scope.

Upvotes: 1

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