Google, why do you do this to me? :face_with_rolling_eyes::sweat_smile::melting_face:

# random

[Stefan Oltmann]

Google, why do you do this to me? 🙄😅🫠

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

This is a good example of why debugging is useful: when you're using some unfamiliar API and you're like "WTH is going on". A bunch of printlns might be able to save you, but exploring around in a debugger will yield faster results usually

[thanksforallthefish]

the docs could use an example, I am not sure how to interpret This method accepts the q parameter with use the trashed=false query parameter, I suspect they mean q=trashed=false but an example would help. documentation is hard (and debug useful)

[Stefan Oltmann]

Oh, yes... q=trashed=false works.

https://developers.google.com/drive/api/reference/rest/v3/files/list is so confusing, because they call trashed a "query parameter", but it's not in the list of query parameters. But for the usage of q there is actually a sample including trashed.

Google Drive Docs are a mess 😄

[Stefan Oltmann]

I'll let them know.

[thanksforallthefish]

oh, the feedback functionality is a nice touch, curious how long it will take to get a feedback (or if they will just update the docs)

[Stefan Oltmann]

I'll let you know. 🙂

[Youssef Shoaib [MOD]]

I'm sorry, WHAT? q=trashed=false??? Maybe I'm just bad at reading docs, but I wouldn't have guessed that in my wildest dreams. I'm sure there's a "perfectly reasonable" explanation for how that came about, but it's still unintuitive

[Stefan Oltmann]

Yeah, on the next page is the thing that gave a hint to that.
I wouldn't have guessed that, too. 😄

[Stefan Oltmann]

The whole Google Drive API is questionable.

[Klitos Kyriacou]

I guess it's somewhat consistent with Google Search, where the search term is a value of the q query parameter. In the Google Drive API it looks like everything that specifies restrictions on which files to list is a value of the q parameter.