Make error handling configurable: silent ignore (current) or loud fail

[alexrollin]

A little help with how to use the WIKIDATAQID would be very much appreciated:

This works:

=WIKIDATAQID("en:Banded_woodpecker")

However, if Cell C25 = "en:Banded_woodpecker"

Then this doesn't work :

=WIKIDATAQID(C25)

[tomayac]

If you don't see results at all, probably you have exceeded your daily allowance of API calls, the tool internally logs this as exception: Service invoked too many times for one day: urlfetch. Else, could you maybe share a test spreadsheet where this issue appears?

[viswam]

Hi,

I have tried the same. (Have not ran out of API count).

The function works if the cell with the string to which the function's parameter points does not contain quotes. With the quotes, it shows up a blank cell.

(Use just en:Banded_woodpecker instead of "en:Banded_woodpecker" in the parameter cell). This is quite in tune with the normal spreadsheet conventions.

-User:Viswaprabha

On 24 August 2017 at 17:01, Thomas Steiner [email protected] wrote:

If you don't see results at all, probably you have exceeded your daily allowance of API calls, the tool internally logs this as exception: Service invoked too many times for one day: urlfetch. Else, could you maybe share a test spreadsheet where this issue appears?

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[alexrollin]

Huh...i SWEAR it didn't work before, but it works now, so great!

Before I had just instealled the addon and it "felt" like the neighboring cell value was not being injected before the WIKIDATAQID function was being executed. I have since reopened the sheet and it appears to be in fine working order without the quotes. Viswan as you say it is in tune with convention.

Thank you for a fine and useful tool and for your support!

[tomayac]

Alright, so it’s definitely a quota issue, thanks for confirming.

Honestly, I don’t know what the best solution would be, return nothing (current behavior) or return some sort of error message.

The issue I see with error messages is chained functions that would horribly break.

Apparently according to this article custom functions can throw errors. Would the community prefer this over of failing silently?

[viswam]

An error output, preferably indicating specific cause will be better. Even better, if an optional parameter can be added to silence the error.

On 24 August 2017 at 21:05, Thomas Steiner [email protected] wrote:

Alright, so it’s definitely a quota issue, thanks for confirming.

Honestly, I don’t know what the best solution would be, return nothing (current behavior) or return some sort of error message.

The issue I see with error messages is chained functions that would horribly break.

Apparently according to this article https://support.google.com/docs/forum/AAAABuH1jm0GD0MWNwrpyY/?hl=en custom functions can throw errors. Would the community prefer this over of failing silently?

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