albums list not returning isWritable for any album, even when all scopes have been approved [79497397]

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Description

jf...@gmail.com

created issue #1

May 10, 2018 12:58AM

A short description of the issue:

API won't let me upload to any album, even though all Google-Photos scopes have been approved.
Even albums created by the app don't garner isWritable=true.

When on

https://myaccount.google.com/permissions viewing the permissions given to the app, it says:
Manage and add to shared albums on your behalf
Manage photos added by this app
View your Google Photos library
Add to your Google Photos library
View and manage your Google Photos library

so I'd expect to be able to write to all normal albums.

If I attempt to upload a photo anyway, I get an HTTP 405 "Method Not Allowed" response.

Your project number from the Google Developers Console: 480654626214

Comments

jf...@google.com <jf...@google.com> #2May 10, 2018 04:31PM

Assigned to jf...@google.com.

Thanks for the report!

I have been able to replicate this issue as well - the flag doesn't appear to be returned in the 'list albums' call. I have forwarded the issue to the engineering team.

You can only write to albums that your app has created. (See the scopes section:

https://developers.google.com/photos/library/guides/authentication-authorization#OAuth2Authorizing I'll also see if we can make it clearer in the uploading media guide in our documentation.)

Can you confirm that you can create media items in albums that you have created, even if the 'writeable' property is not returned?

jf...@gmail.com <jf...@gmail.com> #3May 10, 2018 05:31PM

Thanks so much for the reply. About scopes, it seems from the docs that a scope of "

https://www.googleapis.com/auth/photoslibrary" should allow upload to any of the user's albums, no?

(Being 2:30am for me at the moment, I'll try the uploads tomorrow.)

jf...@gmail.com <jf...@gmail.com> #4May 11, 2018 02:03AM

I can confirm that uploads are okay to albums created by the app, but (even with proper scopes) are not allowed to other albums.

Note that the docs give the incorrect upload endpoint; I've submitted that as a separate bug.

I hope the app-created-albums-only restriction is just a during-beta kind of thing, and that users will be given the opportunity to upload to all their albums. My app is a plugin for Adobe Lightroom, which tends to be the center of the user's photographic world and the Master Source of Knowledge for all their photography.

jf...@google.com <jf...@google.com> May 28, 2018 05:04AM

Reassigned to li...@google.com.

mp...@gmail.com <mp...@gmail.com> #5Jun 18, 2018 08:29PM

"I can confirm that uploads are okay to albums created by the app, but (even with proper scopes) are not allowed to other albums."
Why is that? If user grants proper permission - it should be possible.

jf...@google.com <jf...@google.com> #6Jun 20, 2018 03:40AM

re #5 - that's not something that's currently supported by the Library API. Creation of media items is restricted to the user's library or to albums created by your application.

This sounds like something we should track separately. Please file a a feature request and we can follow up there:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/new?component=385336&template=1083385

jf...@google.com <jf...@google.com> #7Aug 1, 2018 03:24AM

Marked as fixed.

We have just released a new version of the Google Photos Library API that fixes the issue of the missing 'isWritable' property.
Thanks for your patience!
See our release notes for further detail:

https://developers.google.com/photos/library/support/release-notes#2018-07-31

Note that you can't create media items in albums that were not created by your app, a feature request to support this is being tracked in

https://issuetracker.google.com/110692941