Error on wave import: Can't split further; too many results (300) between 14932 and 14933

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Error on wave import: Can't split further; too many results (300) between 14932 and 14933

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Sadly, this due to a limitation in wave.google.com's search
implementation: searches will only return up to 300 results.  This
affects both interactive searches and search RPCs through the robot
API.  Walkaround uses the API to search for waves by date, so if you
have 300 or more waves that have been modified on the same date,
walkaround aborts in the way you observed because it doesn't know
whether it found them all.  (I believe it still lets you import the
300 that the RPC returned.)

Can you search for after:2010/11/19 before:2010/11/19 on
wave.google.com and check whether the results are "normal" waves, or
were e.g. created by a runaway robot experiment that generated many
waves on one day?

Solutions to this problem that I can think of:
* You could add a private reply to some of the waves to move them out
of the 2010/11/19 search results.  This is obviously only a good
approach if you have just slightly over 300 waves on that day, not if
you have thousands.
* We could try to split the search space further in the hope that this
will leave us with buckets of size <300.  We could search for with:me
followed by -with:me and similar things.
* I could modify the wave.google.com servers to increase the limit
from 300 to a higher number.  This would be good to do but it's not as
easy as it sounds.

Original comment by [email protected] on 8 Nov 2011 at 5:34

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I see now that your problem description and the exception that you pasted are 
two different problems.

My previous response explains the exception, and I fixed that (increased limit 
to 10000).

Walkaround should be able to import individual waves except if they are too 
big.  I will work on big wave import soon.  Was the wave that you tried to 
import relatively big?  Does it work for small waves?  If you still get errors 
with the new code, please file a new bug.

Original comment by [email protected] on 25 Nov 2011 at 7:47

• Changed title: Error on wave import: Can't split further; too many results (300) between 14932 and 14933
• Changed state: Fixed