Gmail API: ETags are not supported in the ruby library, but they are supported in the API

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#20,546 opened on Nov 15, 2024 0 comments 0 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub

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Difficulty: 3/5
Estimated time: 1-2 days
Newbie friendliness: 48/100

Issue type: Feature
Clarity: Mostly clear
Activity status: Stale
Tech stack: ruby
Domain: api

Research direction

Start with the Ruby Google::Apis::GmailV1::Filter model documented at googleapis.dev and compare it with the Gmail Filter API documentation linked in the issue. Determine how ETags are represented for filters and update the Ruby library so the GmailV1 API exposes that support; done means filter synchronization can use ETags without changing unrelated data.

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Description

In the GMail API, ETags are supported for Filters:

https://developers.google.com/resources/api-libraries/documentation/gmail/v1/csharp/latest/classGoogle_1_1Apis_1_1Gmail_1_1v1_1_1Data_1_1Filter.html

The Ruby API does not (yet) support that:

https://googleapis.dev/ruby/google-apis-gmail_v1/v0.2.0/Google/Apis/GmailV1/Filter.html

The problem is that maintaining external filters and syncing them to GMail is very complicated and/or consumes a lot of API. Having an eTag would make that very much easier to change only the data which needs to be changed.

Therefore I'd be grateful if the Ruby SDK would support the full GmailV1 API in that regard.

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