Saying Goodbye to the GData Admin Settings API

Posted by Shashank Gupta, Product Manager, Google Apps for Work and Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate, Google Apps

Back in 2013, we launchedthe Google Apps Admin SDK, and later announced as a result that several outdated Apps Admin APIs would be deprecated and shut down in April 2015. Today, we are continuing this effort of removing older, less-used functionality by announcing the deprecation of the GData Admin Settings API. Some GData API functionality will find a replacement from an Admin SDK counterpart, while other features will be discontinued. The following table summarizes which features will be retained (and where to access replacement functionality) and which won’t:

Admin Settings API

Endpoint

Post-Deprecation Replacement (if any)

General Settings

/defaultLanguage

Customer API

/organizationName

Customer API

/currentNumberOfUsers

no replacement / discontinued

/maximumNumberOfUsers

no replacement / discontinued

Account Settings

/accountInformation/supportPIN

no replacement / discontinued

/accountInformation/customerPIN

no replacement / discontinued

/accountInformation/adminSecondaryEmail

Customer API

/accountInformation/edition

no replacement / discontinued

/accountInformation/creationTime

Customer API

/accountInformation/countryCode

Customer API

Appearance Settings

All endpoints

no replacement / discontinued

Verification Settings

All endpoints

no replacement / discontinued

Single Sign-on (SSO) Settings

All endpoints

replacement API coming soon

Gateway and Routing Settings

All endpoints

no replacement / discontinued

To summarize, the GData Admin Settings API is being deprecated today and will remain operational for one year to give developers time to migrate. This means that on August 16, 2017, this deprecated API will be shut down. At that time, all calls to the API and any features in your applications that depend on it will no longer work. Please migrate as soon as possible.