No JSON object could be decoded when calling index.list_documents()

[nlokare]

Hi,

Just to clarify, is the gcloud/Cloud Search API the equivalent to App Engine's https://cloud.google.com/appengine/training/fts_intro/? I can't find any documentation specifying this, but I assumed so.

If so, I keep getting Value Error: No JSON object could be decoded whenever I call the list_indexes() or list_documents() methods.

If not, is there an equivalent library I should be using to build app engine search indexes from a Google compute cloud application?

Thanks

[tseaver]

Thanks for the report! gcloud.search is a wrapper for the Google Cloud Search API, which is still in alpha state: you need to be whitelisted to use the service.

The bug in the wrapper is that it should handle non-JSON error responses better.

[tseaver]

Unfortunately, the early-access program is closed. :(

[dhermes]

This was filed in #1438 / #1506 and "fixed" in #1508.

@nlokare What version of the library are you using?

[nlokare]

@dhermes I am using version 0.9.0

[dhermes]

Ahhh I see. This fix was in the 0.10.1 release.

[tseaver]

Note that @nlokare is out of luck even if he upgrades, unless he was already on the whitelist for the Cloud Search alpha: that signup has closed.

[nlokare]

@dhermes @tseaver Thanks for the updates. Do you happen to know when the whitelist will be open again?

[dhermes]

We don't have visibility into that. I sent an email to one of the engineers on the API and hope to hear back. Sorry we don't know more.

[nlokare]

@dhermes Thanks. Appreciate it. Just fyi, the online docs don't indicate that the search API is currently in alpha.

[dhermes]

The only docs are https://cloud.google.com/search/, which 404 if you aren't on the whitelist. This is distinct from the GAE feature: https://cloud.google.com/appengine/training/fts_intro/ (at least as far as I know it is, I definitely know the docs are distinct).

[nlokare]

@dhermes I am referring to these docs https://googlecloudplatform.github.io/gcloud-python/0.9.0/search-usage.html

[dhermes]

Ahh I see. That is something we can fix! Thanks.