[annotator-dev] Trouble setting up local storage

Tue Mar 10 02:17:02 UTC 2015

You said you were using MongoDB + Node.js for your server. Did you write
this yourself? Have you looked at this one:
https://github.com/hyperstudio/MIT-Annotation-Data-Store ?

You need to return the totals and rows in your response to the search on
the server.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:11 PM, Gareth Highnam <gareth862 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Do you see anything wrong with this post? If I look at the response (as
> suggested by Shauna), this is what is returned by the loadFromSearch, but
> nothing appears on the page itself.
>
> Also worth noting - there is no "totals" or "rows" object returned by
> search, but the docs say they should be expected.
>
> [ { _id: 54fe3df73cd83186094364ad,
>     quote: 'are two solu',
>     uri: 'http://www.example.com/anno/anno.html',
>     id: 54fdd3ce6c8417cd71810cf9,
>     __v: 0,
>     permissions: [],
>     tags: [],
>     ranges:
>      [ { start: '/p[2]',
>          startOffset: 22,
>          end: '/p[2]',
>          endOffset: 35,
>          _id: 54fe3df73cd83186094364ae } ],
>     text: 'do this',
>     updated: Mon Mar 09 2015 20:42:31 GMT-0400 (EDT),
>     created: Mon Mar 09 2015 20:42:31 GMT-0400 (EDT) } ]
>
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 9:02 PM, Randall Leeds <tilgovi at hypothes.is> wrote:
>
>> No. Annotator will use the "id" field for substitution in the URL,
>> though. It's important that it be accurate. Annotator will completely
>> ignore _id.
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:47 PM, Gareth Highnam <gareth862 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> One more question - will it break things if there is both an "_id" field
>>> and a "id" field for each entry (and they are identical)?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 6:04 PM, Gareth Highnam <gareth862 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I did create a new "id" field that copied "_id", although now that I
>>>> look at it I ended up copying _id from ranges and not the main one, which
>>>> may be an issue. I'll see what happens if I fix that.
>>>>
>>>> As for the URI, it actually does match, but I changed it by hand in the
>>>> email (because my friend is paranoid). Sorry for the confusion there, good
>>>> catch though!
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Randall Leeds <tilgovi at hypothes.is>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Looking good. Annotator Store expects the id key to be named "id". You
>>>>> may need to rewrite that key in your API routes.
>>>>> On Mar 9, 2015 3:13 PM, "Gareth Highnam" <gareth862 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> This time it gave 200 and gave me some JSON about my existing
>>>>>> entries, which are a bunch data like so:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> {"_id":"54fdf51f18eb23d57f4a8ca6","quote":"are two solut","uri":"
>>>>>> http://localhost.com/inline/anno.html
>>>>>> ","__v":0,"permissions":[],"tags":[],"ranges":[{"start":"/p[2]","startOffset":22,"end":"/p[2]","endOffset":36,"_id":"54fdf51f18eb23d57f4a8ca7"}],"text":"adsf","updated":"2015-03-09T19:31:43.016Z","created":"2015-03-09T19:31:43.016Z","id":"54fde1dbf7d884cc7862b346"},09T21:57:53.240Z","id":"54fde1dbf7d884cc7862b346"}]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not really sure if these posts are created correctly in first
>>>>>> place, which could be a big issue but there are no explicit errors from
>>>>>> Annotator about it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Gareth
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I missed that Annotator is successfully POSTing entries.  That
>>>>>>> narrows things down.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What url is it GETing from?  When it returns 200 or 304, can you use
>>>>>>> the "Network -> Response" element of the developer console to inspect what
>>>>>>> it's returning?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:55 PM, Gareth Highnam <gareth862 at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks Shauna,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> When the loadFromSearch runs, it returns either a 304 or 200 type
>>>>>>>> error. Because of this, it does not report anything to the developer
>>>>>>>> console. Why it does one or the other I still don't know...  You may be
>>>>>>>> onto something with the port issues though.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The confusing part is the lack of obvious errors. Store seems to
>>>>>>>> POST fine, but does not GET from search even with a 200 error.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Gareth
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 4:40 PM, Shauna Gordon-McKeon <
>>>>>>>> shaunagm at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I'm an Annotator newb too, but a few things I notice:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - You've given a full path when specifying the endpoint.  In my
>>>>>>>>> (working) version I just specify the prefix, in my case '/api'
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - You've specified :3000 for the api endpoint but not for the
>>>>>>>>> URIs.  If the whole app is accessed via port 3000 this may cause problems.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> - You've got a term search:  '/search' here which I don't have.
>>>>>>>>> This could totally be a working different implementation from mine, but I
>>>>>>>>> thought I'd flag it as a potential problem.  I've put my code
>>>>>>>>> here in case it's helpful to look through:
>>>>>>>>> https://pastebin.mozilla.org/8824977
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Maybe try switching the above things around and see if it starts
>>>>>>>>> working?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> When debugging problems, I use the developer console that
>>>>>>>>> Chrome/Firefox provide.  You can see network requests there.  Annotator
>>>>>>>>> should be making a request to the API store -- what is the response from
>>>>>>>>> the API?  404 (not found)?  403 (forbidden)?  Or is it breaking before it
>>>>>>>>> even makes a request?
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> best
>>>>>>>>> Shauna
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 5:09 PM, Gareth Highnam <
>>>>>>>>> gareth862 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've been tying to set up local storage with the storage plugin,
>>>>>>>>>> using Node.js+MongoDB. My end goal is for anyone visiting my page to be
>>>>>>>>>> able to annotate it and view any existing annotations previously made, when
>>>>>>>>>> the page loads. I don't need any authentication for this purpose.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Disclaimer: (I am a noob)
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Here is where I am:
>>>>>>>>>> 1. Page loads, annotator can highlight, create, edit, delete
>>>>>>>>>> comments on front end.
>>>>>>>>>> 2. Annotator POST can create entries in back end.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> When I reload page, no stored annotations are brought up, despite
>>>>>>>>>> existing in backend. Here is the code for the storage set up:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> var content = $('div').annotator();
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> content.annotator('addPlugin', 'Store', {
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>         // The endpoint of the store on your server.
>>>>>>>>>>                                                    prefix: '
>>>>>>>>>> http://www.nofeveryone.com:3000/inline',
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>             // Attach the uri of the current page to all
>>>>>>>>>> annotations to allow search.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>             annotationData: {
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>             'uri': 'http://www.nofeveryone.com/anno/anno.html'
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                 },
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>             // This will perform a "search" action when the
>>>>>>>>>> plugin loads. Will
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>             // request the last 20 annotations for the current
>>>>>>>>>> url.                                                  // eg.
>>>>>>>>>> /store/endpoint/search?limit=20&uri=http://this/document/only
>>>>>>>>>>                      loadFromSearch: {
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>             'limit': 20,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                 'uri': 'http://www.nofeveryone.com/anno/anno.html
>>>>>>>>>> '
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                 },
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>             urls: {
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                  search:  '/search'
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>                 }
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>     });
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> The API endpoints appear fully functional. When I test the same
>>>>>>>>>> http requests from my URI using curl, I get my posts back in JSON.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I've been pretty stumped for why it's not loading them with
>>>>>>>>>> "loadFromSearch", so if anyone thinks they can help I would greatly
>>>>>>>>>> appreciate it. I'm happy to give any other info about my code.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Gareth
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
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