Comments on: Flickr.Net Library Source Code Release 1.4.1 (Updated)

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:19:02 +0000

Sam,

Thank you so much for the fantastic API wrapper.

I noticed a couple of bugs I had to get around to get things moving.

Flickr.GetResponse needs to have the ampersand removed from “&api_sig=” when building the url with _sharedSecret. Also, in PhotoInfo.PhotoInfoTag, the TagId attribute needs to be string instead of long.

I’ve got it working with the 2.0 framework with no problems. I only wish nDoc was ready for 2.0…importing the xml comments doc isn’t supported yet…but its being working on.

Thanks, Jeff

By: RT

RT — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:22:20 +0000

Sam, I’ll download the latest version but with so much to do in all my projects, I’d rather wait for the new release for any compatibilities with VS.Net 2005; esp. since I’m just now getting into your implementation.

Also, as regards to your comments to Rod about GPL, I’m also wondering about this. Does this require us to put a message on our commercial and/or shareware type app. that says “Download source here” or “Uses Flickr.Net link here” or just a message that says source avail. on request. I have no problem crediting Flickr.Net and a msg that says “Uses Flickr.Net API” but now that I think about it, I’m not so keen on GPL if I don’t understand which GPL as lately there have been variants saying GPL with this exception or that. Credit is good; I’m not so sure about open source for any and all projects…please explain…again, I want to give credit and refer them to your download.

By: Sam

Sam — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:15:50 +0000

Rod: No requirements other than the GPL license if you modify the source code.
However I’m never gonna object to a bit of pimping. Send them to the /flickr/flickr-api page if you want.

RT: You can upload files now. Have you got the latest version?

By: Rod

Rod — Fri, 04 Nov 2005 16:02:58 +0000

Sam,

Before I get too much further with my app, do you require any acknowledgement on using your Flickr API in other apps? I would be glad to provide a reference to your API in the about box of my application, and a link to wherever you want. Thanks, Rod

By: Rod

Rod — Thu, 03 Nov 2005 05:55:53 +0000

I noticed the Person class did not return the photo or profile url, so I added the following lines in person.cs in the appropriate place based on the API documentation. Works like a charm.

    /// The users photo location on Flickr
    /// http://www.flickr.com/photos/username/
    ///
    [XmlElement("photosurl",Form=XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]
    public string PhotosUrl;

    /// The users profile location on Flickr
    /// http://www.flickr.com/people/username/
    ///
    [XmlElement("profileurl",Form=XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]
    public string ProfileUrl;

I should have my Flickr app ready in about a week or two. Looking forward to your next release with all the changes included - great stuff!

By: RT

RT — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 17:19:15 +0000

This is cool Sam, I’m uksing Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2…looking forward to that project package and the file upload method.

By: Sam

Sam — Tue, 01 Nov 2005 12:42:21 +0000

I’ve fixed all the bugs mentioned here - I just need to get around to packaging.

I’m also trying to clean the code up slightly.

We also have the new release of Visual Studio 2005 to consider from now on - I hope to get it working in both.

By: AG

AG — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 06:14:31 +0000

My bad, it was perhaps a bit rude to just dump a big ol call stack there. i need to learn some manners. Anyway, did some research and adding req.KeepAlive = false; to around line 170 in flickr.cs does the trick.

This library rocks, thank you very much for doing.

By: AG

AG — Sun, 30 Oct 2005 10:58:10 +0000

Csn snyone splain whats up with this error and how to fix? Keeps popping up now and then when i do a photosearch.

FlickrNet.FlickrException was unhandled by user code
Message=”The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server. (9999)”
Source=”braveflick”
Code=9999
Verbose=”The underlying connection was closed: A connection that was expected to be kept alive was closed by the server.”
StackTrace:
at FlickrNet.Flickr.DoGetResponse(String url)

   at FlickrNet.Flickr.GetResponse(NameValueCollection parameters, TimeSpan cacheTimeout)

   at FlickrNet.Flickr.GetResponseCache(NameValueCollection parameters)

   at FlickrNet.Flickr.PhotosSearch(String userId, String tags, TagMode tagMode, String text, DateTime minUploadDate, DateTime maxUploadDate, Int32 license, Int32 perPage, Int32 page, PhotoSearchExtras extras)

   at FlickrNet.Flickr.PhotosSearch(String userId, String tags, TagMode tagMode, String text, Int32 perPage, Int32 page)

By: Rod

Rod — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 19:08:18 +0000

Found it - flickr.photos.getContactsPublicPhotos does not add the userID parameter to the collection. SImply add
parameters.Add(”user_id”, userId);
to the function and it works correctly.