Error while using part=“…,processingDetails” in a youtube.videos.insert() request

Question

We're developing in java 7 and YouTube Data API v3.

When we are calling the upload service with "processingDetails" part, we are getting a 503 Service Unavailable Error. What are we doing wrong? If we remove it, we can upload the video just fine. But we want/need to know about processingDetails.

Here is the code:

YouTube.Videos.Insert videoInsert = this.youtube.videos().insert("snippet,statistics,status,processingDetails", videoObjectDefiningMetadata, mediaContent);

everything else it's the same as the java client provided in google API.

Here is the request: https://www.googleapis.com/upload/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,statistics,status,processingDetails

And here is the exception stack trace:

2013-06-14 17:50:40,375 ERROR [] [main] (...)despegar.client.impl.YouTubeMediaClient (YouTubeMediaClient.java:264) : Error com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 503 Service Unavailable at com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException.from(GoogleJsonResponseException.java:145) at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:111) at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.json.AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.newExceptionOnError(AbstractGoogleJsonClientRequest.java:38) at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:423) at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.executeUnparsed(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:343) at com.google.api.client.googleapis.services.AbstractGoogleClientRequest.execute(AbstractGoogleClientRequest.java:460) at com.despegar.client.impl.YouTubeMediaClient.uploadVideoWithFailureRecovery(YouTubeMediaClient.java:285) at com.despegar.client.impl.YouTubeMediaClient.uploadAttempt(YouTubeMediaClient.java:260)

Thanks!

Answer 1

Two things:

1. The part parameter values you include in your youtube.videos.insert() request should correspond to the parts you're specifying in the upload metadata. Normally this would be snippet (since that's the part containing the required title and description) and sometimes status (if you're also setting the public/private status of the video). You can't set statistics or processingDetails during an upload, so you shouldn't include them in the list of parts. You can still request the statistics or processingDetails parts after the upload completes, via a youtube.videos.list() call.
2. The API should return a meaningful error message explaining this to you instead of returning a generic 503. I'll file a bug with the engineering team asking them to take care of that.