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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"`from_any_pb` gives a useless error message when the type names don't match.","articleBody":"#### Environment details\r\n\r\n  - `google-api-core` version: `pip show google-api-core` = 2.19.2\r\n\r\n#### Steps to reproduce\r\n\r\nTry to decode an `Any` with the wrong type path.  \r\n\r\nThe error is like:\r\n\r\n```\r\nTypeError: Could not convert `Any` to `PredictLongRunningResponse` \r\n```\r\n\r\nI had to go way down in the debugger to find that the actual problem was the different versions:\r\n\r\n```\r\nTypeError: Could not convert\r\n   Any[google.ai.generativelanguage.v1main.PredictLongRunningResponse] to\r\n       google.ai.generativelanguage.v1beta.PredictLongRunningResponse\r\n```\r\n\r\n#### Code example\r\n\r\nIn this Colab example, the API doesn't know what version the client library is calling with and returns an `Any` with a mismatched-version.\r\n\r\nhttps://colab.research.google.com/drive/1m6KLCvp2l1oD32cnIsaBLN5ecmbFNncI?resourcekey=0-hivajkhDg2FA5Sec3pTu4w\u0026usp=sharing\r\n\r\n#### Stack trace\r\n```\r\n\u003cipython-input-112-5c7fa9bc2888\u003e(3)\u003ccell line: 3\u003e()\r\n      1 import time\r\n      2 \r\n----\u003e 3 while not op.done():\r\n      4   time.sleep(5)\r\n      5   print('waiting...')\r\n\r\n  /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/google/api_core/operation.py(174)done()\r\n    172             bool: True if the operation is complete, False otherwise.\r\n    173         \"\"\"\r\n--\u003e 174         self._refresh_and_update(retry)\r\n    175         return self._operation.done\r\n    176 \r\n\r\n  /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/google/api_core/operation.py(163)_refresh_and_update()\r\n    161         if not self._operation.done:\r\n    162             self._operation = self._refresh(retry=retry) if retry else self._refresh()\r\n--\u003e 163             self._set_result_from_operation()\r\n    164 \r\n    165     def done(self, retry=None):\r\n\r\n  /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/google/api_core/operation.py(134)_set_result_from_operation()\r\n    132 \r\n    133             if self._operation.HasField(\"response\"):\r\n--\u003e 134                 response = protobuf_helpers.from_any_pb(\r\n    135                     self._result_type, self._operation.response\r\n    136                 )\r\n\r\n\u003e /usr/local/lib/python3.10/dist-packages/google/api_core/protobuf_helpers.py(65)from_any_pb()\r\n     63     # Unpack the Any object and populate the protobuf message instance.\r\n     64     if not any_pb.Unpack(msg_pb):\r\n---\u003e 65         raise TypeError(\r\n     66             \"Could not convert {} to {}\".format(\r\n     67                 any_pb.__class__.__name__, pb_type.__name__\r\n\r\n```","author":{"url":"https://github.com/MarkDaoust","@type":"Person","name":"MarkDaoust"},"datePublished":"2024-10-01T23:51:39.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":1},"url":"https://github.com/711/python-api-core/issues/711"}