Creating a sheet with more than 1000 rows - google-sheets

Question

I am trying to create a Google Sheet with more than 1000 rows and am receiving the error:
{
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Invalid sheets[0].data[0]: Attempting to write row: 1000, beyond the last requested row of: 999",
"errors": [
{
"message": "Invalid sheets[0].data[0]: Attempting to write row: 1000, beyond the last requested row of: 999",
"domain": "global",
"reason": "badRequest"
}
],
"status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
}
}
I also tried creating an empty sheet, and then running batch update calls with GridRanges.
$range = new Google_Service_Sheets_GridRange();
$range->setSheetId($sheetId);
$range->setStartRowIndex(0);
$range->setEndRowIndex(sizeof($data));
$range->setStartColumnIndex(0);
$range->setEndColumnIndex(sizeof(array_keys($data[0])));
$cellsRequest = new Google_Service_Sheets_UpdateCellsRequest();
$cellsRequest->setFields('*');
$cellsRequest->setRange($range);
$cellsRequest->setRows($rowDataArray);
$request = new Google_Service_Sheets_Request();
$request->setUpdateCells($cellsRequest);
$batchUpdate = new Google_Service_Sheets_BatchUpdateSpreadsheetRequest();
$batchUpdate->setRequests(array($request));
$result = $service->spreadsheets->batchUpdate($documentId, $batchUpdate);
When that didn't work, I tried UpdateCellRequests with ranges that were 1000 records in size. That gave me this error:
{
"error": {
"code": 400,
"message": "Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name \"update_cells\" at 'requests[0]': Proto field is not repeating, cannot start list.",
"errors": [
{
"message": "Invalid JSON payload received. Unknown name \"update_cells\" at 'requests[0]': Proto field is not repeating, cannot start list.",
"domain": "global",
"reason": "badRequest"
}
],
"status": "INVALID_ARGUMENT"
}
}
Any help on where to go from here would be great!
Thank you.

Answer 1

The write range is truncated to the size of the sheet, and the sheet is only 1000 rows. You'll need to increase the number of rows in the sheet using an UpdateSheetPropertiesRequest or InsertDimensionRequest first. (It can be in the same batchUpdateSpreadsheet call.)
That's a pretty misleading error message, though, so I'll look into making that better.