issues in magento configurable product feed for google merchant - magento

I am working on the google merchant feed for configurable products. I am new in this and so far the situation is
All the products are configurable which are visible on front-end
All simple products are set to not viewed individually as they are
linked with some configurable product
the fields in the google feed is
id title description google product category product type link image link condition availability price sale price sale price effective date item group id age group color size shipping shipping weight identifier_exists
i have successfully get all the data for simple products and use the parent product url for its link field as it is set to not viewed individually
But the problem is now i have to make a feed for configurable product
but
the price for configurable product is 0
the weight is not there
can anyone please share some sample configurable product feed for google merchant
thanks in advance

I dont know this will work google or not. The short cut is "uploading the prices for configurable product" , you can upload the least price of associated product to the configurable product.
also , once you upload the configurable product, using "update attributes" , put weight as "1" for all configurable products.

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