Android Publisher: "Track names in request path and request body must match."

Question

I'm using the google-api-python-client library to upload apks to Google Playstore. All worked well until today. I did not modify my upload script but now i am getting the error:

googleapiclient.errors.HttpError: <HttpError 400 when requesting https://www.googleapis.com/androidpublisher/v3/applications/[packageName]/edits/[editId]/tracks/internal?alt=json returned 
**"Track names in request path and request body must match."**

This is my upload script:

from apiclient.discovery import build
import httplib2
from oauth2client import client
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
import json
import mimetypes

package_name = '...'
keyfile_content = '...'
apk_file = '...'
release_name = '...'
track = 'internal'

mimetypes.add_type("application/octet-stream", ".apk")
mimetypes.add_type("application/octet-stream", ".aab")

keyfile_dict = json.loads(keyfile_content)
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_dict(keyfile_dict, 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher')
http = httplib2.Http()
http = credentials.authorize(http)

service = build('androidpublisher', 'v3', http=http)

edit_request = service.edits().insert(body={}, packageName=package_name)
result = edit_request.execute()
edit_id = result['id']

apk_response = service.edits().apks().upload(
        editId=edit_id,
        packageName=package_name,
        media_body=apk_file).execute()

print('Version code %d has been uploaded but not yet committed' % apk_response['versionCode'])

if track:
    track_response = service.edits().tracks().update(
        editId=edit_id,
        track=track,
        packageName=package_name,
        body={u'releases': [{
            u'name': release_name,
            u'versionCodes': [str(apk_response['versionCode'])],
            u'status': u'completed',
        }]}).execute()

    print('Track %s is set with releases: %s' % (
        track_response['track'], str(track_response['releases'])))
else:
    print('No track specified')

commit_request = service.edits().commit(
        editId=edit_id, packageName=package_name).execute()

print('Edit "%s" has been committed' % commit_request['id'])

I am using google-api-python-client 1.7.11.

I could not find anything about the error online. Has anyone here an idea?

Update

Thanks to the reply from @Silvio i could get my script to work again by adding the track to the request body as well:

from apiclient.discovery import build
import httplib2
from oauth2client import client
from oauth2client.service_account import ServiceAccountCredentials
import json
import mimetypes

package_name = '...'
keyfile_content = '...'
apk_file = '...'
release_name = '...'
track = 'internal'

mimetypes.add_type("application/octet-stream", ".apk")
mimetypes.add_type("application/octet-stream", ".aab")

keyfile_dict = json.loads(keyfile_content)
credentials = ServiceAccountCredentials.from_json_keyfile_dict(keyfile_dict, 'https://www.googleapis.com/auth/androidpublisher')
http = httplib2.Http()
http = credentials.authorize(http)

service = build('androidpublisher', 'v3', http=http)

edit_request = service.edits().insert(body={}, packageName=package_name)
result = edit_request.execute()
edit_id = result['id']

apk_response = service.edits().apks().upload(
        editId=edit_id,
        packageName=package_name,
        media_body=apk_file).execute()

print('Version code %d has been uploaded but not yet committed' % apk_response['versionCode'])

if track:
    track_response = service.edits().tracks().update(
        editId=edit_id,
        track=track,
        packageName=package_name,
        body={u'track': track,
            u'releases': [{
            u'name': release_name,
            u'versionCodes': [str(apk_response['versionCode'])],
            u'status': u'completed',
        }]}).execute()

    print('Track %s is set with releases: %s' % (
        track_response['track'], str(track_response['releases'])))
else:
    print('No track specified')

commit_request = service.edits().commit(
        editId=edit_id, packageName=package_name).execute()

print('Edit "%s" has been committed' % commit_request['id'])

Answer 1

Add "track" to the request body as well.

e.g.

body={u'track': track,
u'releases': [{
u'name': release_name,
u'versionCodes': [str(apk_response['versionCode'])],
u'status': u'completed',
...

This worked for me. You can check the expected request body structure here:

https://developers.google.com/android-publisher/api-ref/edits/tracks#resource

Answer 2

I'm having similar problems publishing with Codemagic Google Play publishing fails with "Track names in request path and request body must match", looks like something might be wrong on Google's side

Answer 3

I am also having similar issue, opened issue here.

https://github.com/googleapis/google-api-python-client/issues/840

If all the folks can tag on this issue that would help.

I find myself in similar situation, it worked last week and now its broken...

Answer 4

For other people who use java version of Android publisher, i had the same error.

maven artifact : google-api-services-androidpublisher

java error during publish :

Exception in thread "main" com.netfinca.mobile.publish.apk.PublisherHelperException: com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException: 400 Bad Request
{
  "code" : 400,
  "errors" : [ {
    "domain" : "global",
    "message" : "Track names in request path and request body must match.",
    "reason" : "badRequest"
  } ],
  "message" : "Track names in request path and request body must match.",
  "status" : "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
}

To solve it, we must set the track attribute of the "com.google.api.services.androidpublisher.model.Track" object

The code will be like this :

Edit edit = new AndroidPublisher.Builder(...);
Track trackObject = new Track().setTrack(trackValue); // trackValue could be internal, alpha, ...
edit.tracks().update(androidPackage, editId, trackValue, trackObject );

In my case, it was missing this :

.setTrack(trackValue);