Upgraded java library to 1.19.0 and User model return types are all different

Question

I'm using the Java client library for the Directory API from here: https://developers.google.com/api-client-library/java/apis/admin/directory_v1

The com.google.api.services.admin.directory.model.User model has changed from 1.16 to 1.19.

In the old version I used to be able to do this:

List<UserAddress> userAddressList = user.getAddresses();
for(UserAddress userAddress : userAddressList) {
    ///
}

But now user.getAddresses is returning an Object. Same deal for getOrganizations, phones, etc... These all return an Object which upon further inspection looks like:

List<ArrayMap<String, String>>

ArrayMap extends GenericJson.

What do I have to do to get at the UserAddress, other then going back to the previous version?

Answer 1

It's a bug (from my point of view) in the latest versions. Use an older one like 1.16, 1.17 or the first 1.18 (latest 1.18 also have the bug).

Answer 2

The same thing happened in the C# client and back in May 2015 a Google developer named Eric Koleda replied:

A change to the backend had the unintended consequence of changing the discovery document for the service, making the addresses field (and others) being marked as type=any. This causes problems for strongly types languages like .NET, as you've found. The team is aware of the issue but it's unclear when a fix will be available.

However the C# client still has this problem, so I would assume the Java client does as well.

Here are a couple of issues I found in Google's issue tracker specifically for this problem in the Java client, but neither has seen any progress yet:

• Issue 3645: Broken code generator for Directory API in Java client: User class lacking explicit types
• Issue 3730: Latest version of the Directory API client returns Object instead of correct class