Google Drive Sdk Not Returning Headrevisionid For Google Docs Format

I have been working on google drive sync mechanism. I am using Google Drive Python SDK for it. The issue i am having is that the google SDK does not return headRevisionId is file r

Solution 1:

I'm seeing the same behavior, despite messages indicating the issue was addressed: Head revision not working as intended for Google Docs formats.

For now the way I retrieve headRevisionId on a Google Doc is to make a separate call to list revisions (drive.revisions.list) on the fileId.

Details on managing revisions: https://developers.google.com/drive/manage-revisions

Solution 2:

According to this page this is how it is currently meant to work.

#head_revision_id ⇒ String

The ID of the file's head revision. This field is only populated for files with content stored in Drive; it is not populated for Google Docs or shortcut files.