Based on the answers from Jim Blackler and Chris Kaminski, I enhanced my code to read the query results in pages. I also do the delete as a batch, which should be faster than doing individual deletions.
I'm providing the Java code here in case it is useful to anyone.
CalendarQuery myQuery = new CalendarQuery(feedUrl);
DateFormat dfGoogle = new SimpleDateFormat("yyyy-MM-dd'T00:00:00'");
Date dt = Calendar.getInstance().getTime();
myQuery.setMinimumStartTime(DateTime.parseDateTime(dfGoogle.format(dt)));
// Make the end time far into the future so we delete everything
myQuery.setMaximumStartTime(DateTime.parseDateTime("2099-12-31T23:59:59"));
// Set the maximum number of results to return for the query.
// Note: A GData server may choose to provide fewer results, but will never provide
// more than the requested maximum.
myQuery.setMaxResults(5000);
int startIndex = 1;
int entriesReturned;
List<CalendarEventEntry> allCalEntries = new ArrayList<CalendarEventEntry>();
CalendarEventFeed resultFeed;
// Run our query as many times as necessary to get all the
// Google calendar entries we want
while (true) {
myQuery.setStartIndex(startIndex);
// Execute the query and get the response
resultFeed = service.query(myQuery, CalendarEventFeed.class);
entriesReturned = resultFeed.getEntries().size();
if (entriesReturned == 0)
// We've hit the end of the list
break;
// Add the returned entries to our local list
allCalEntries.addAll(resultFeed.getEntries());
startIndex = startIndex + entriesReturned;
}
// Delete all the entries as a batch delete
CalendarEventFeed batchRequest = new CalendarEventFeed();
for (int i = 0; i < allCalEntries.size(); i++) {
CalendarEventEntry entry = allCalEntries.get(i);
BatchUtils.setBatchId(entry, Integer.toString(i));
BatchUtils.setBatchOperationType(entry, BatchOperationType.DELETE);
batchRequest.getEntries().add(entry);
}
// Get the batch link URL and send the batch request
Link batchLink = resultFeed.getLink(Link.Rel.FEED_BATCH, Link.Type.ATOM);
CalendarEventFeed batchResponse = service.batch(new URL(batchLink.getHref()), batchRequest);
// Ensure that all the operations were successful
boolean isSuccess = true;
StringBuffer batchFailureMsg = new StringBuffer("These entries in the batch delete failed:");
for (CalendarEventEntry entry : batchResponse.getEntries()) {
String batchId = BatchUtils.getBatchId(entry);
if (!BatchUtils.isSuccess(entry)) {
isSuccess = false;
BatchStatus status = BatchUtils.getBatchStatus(entry);
batchFailureMsg.append("\nID: " + batchId + " Reason: " + status.getReason());
}
}
if (!isSuccess) {
throw new Exception(batchFailureMsg.toString());
}