Created Google G-Suite shared contact missing name and title - google-admin-sdk

Question

I have written a script to create a shared contact in my G-Suite domain. I have done the OAuth work, and am able to create a contact.
However, when I have created the contact, it does not have all the data I submitted. For example, it does not have name data or title information.
I have tried using the example Google has here: https://developers.google.com/admin-sdk/domain-shared-contacts/#Creating
This is exactly what I am posting:
<atom:entry xmlns:atom='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'>
<atom:category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact' />
<gd:name>
<gd:givenName>Elizabeth</gd:givenName>
<gd:familyName>Bennet</gd:familyName>
<gd:fullName>Elizabeth Bennet</gd:fullName>
</gd:name>
<atom:content type='text'>Notes</atom:content>
<gd:email rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' primary='true' address='liz#gmail.com' displayName='E. Bennet' />
<gd:email rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' address='liz#example.org' />
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' primary='true'>[phone]</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home'>[phone]</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:im address='liz#gmail.com' protocol='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#GOOGLE_TALK' primary='true' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' />
<gd:structuredPostalAddress rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' primary='true'>
<gd:city>Mountain View</gd:city>
<gd:street>1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy</gd:street>
<gd:region>CA</gd:region>
<gd:postcode>94043</gd:postcode>
<gd:country>United States</gd:country>
<gd:formattedAddress>1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View</gd:formattedAddress>
</gd:structuredPostalAddress>
</atom:entry>
It creates the contact, but is missing the names, title, etc.
This is what is returned by the post:
<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8' ?>
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:batch='http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:gContact='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008'>
<id>http://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/compcc.com/base/36b40df989628b57</id>
<updated>2017-01-17T15:42:32.736Z</updated>
<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind' term='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact' />
<title type='text'></title>
<content type='text'>Notes</content>
<link rel='http://schemas.google.com/contacts/2008/rel#edit-photo' type='image/*' href='https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/photos/media/compcc.com/36b40df989628b57/1B2M2Y8AsgTpgAmY7PhCfg' />
<link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/compcc.com/full/36b40df989628b57' />
<link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://www.google.com/m8/feeds/contacts/compcc.com/full/36b40df989628b57/1484667752736001' />
<gd:email rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' address='liz#gmail.com' primary='true' />
<gd:email rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' address='liz#example.org' />
<gd:im address='liz#gmail.com' primary='true' protocol='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#GOOGLE_TALK' rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' />
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' primary='true'>[phone]</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home'>[phone]</gd:phoneNumber>
</entry>"
Does anyone know what might cause this?
Thank you.

Answer 1

After opening a ticket with Google, they gave me the following guidance. Upon implementing the new sample XML, I was able to create a new shared contact with a title. That met my needs.
Here is what I received:
In regard to the issue you are experiencing I was able to test and
replicate the behavior that you are encountering. Whenever I follow
the example the Shared Contact is created but part of the contact
information is not complete. I will proceed to report this immediately
in order to update the Article that you are referring.
After investigating and running additional tests, I was able to make
the API work as expected and I was able to add a Domain Shared Contact
with most of the details. I noticed that the Domain Shared Contacts
API uses Google Data APIs to push the information to your domain. I
was able to find an official example from the Google Data APIs and it
seems to work as expected. You can check the example that I am
referring here
https://developers.google.com/gdata/docs/2.0/elements#examples
Below I am including the example that I used as a reference (Note that
I removed the "organization" part from the example provided on the
link above):
<entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005'>
<category scheme='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#kind'
term='http://schemas.google.com/contact/2008#contact'/>
<title>Eliza Benne</title>
<content>My good friend, Liz. A little quick to judge sometimes, but nice girl.</content>
<gd:email rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' primary='true' address='lizi#gmail.com'/>
<gd:email rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home' address='lizi#example.org'/>
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' primary='true'>
[phone]
</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home'>
[phone]
</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:phoneNumber rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#mobile'>
[phone]
</gd:phoneNumber>
<gd:im rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home'
protocol='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#GOOGLE_TALK'
address='lizi#gmail.com'/>
<gd:postalAddress rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#work' primary='true'>
1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy
Mountain View, CA 94043
</gd:postalAddress>
<gd:postalAddress rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#home'>
800 Main Street
Mountain View, CA 94041
</gd:postalAddress>
</entry>
You should be able to use the above example and add external contacts
to your Shared Contacts directory. I will be more than happy to over
the steps with you to test this and make sure that the API is working
as expected. Note: Please make sure you are using GData-Version: 3.0.