[annotator-dev] Trouble setting up local storage

Tue Mar 10 02:17:30 UTC 2015

It looks like you're setup is working fine, except you need to put that
Array into the `rows` key of a result object and add a `total` count.

On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 7:17 PM, Randall Leeds <tilgovi at hypothes.is> wrote:

> 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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