[ckan-changes] commit/ckanext-storage: rgrp: [doc][s]: improve doc of metadata api and do some tidying.

Sat May 14 16:07:26 UTC 2011

1 new changeset in ckanext-storage:

http://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-storage/changeset/668267fd096e/
changeset:   r26:668267fd096e
user:        rgrp
date:        2011-05-14 18:07:15
summary:     [doc][s]: improve doc of metadata api and do some tidying.
affected #:  1 file (729 bytes)

--- a/README.rst	Fri May 13 20:58:08 2011 +0100
+++ b/README.rst	Sat May 14 17:07:15 2011 +0100
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@
   * Some new methods to the CKAN API for dealing with storage
   * A /storage/upload page to web interface for doing file uploads
   
-It uses OFS to talk to the backing storage so can support anything that OFS
+It uses `OFS`_ to talk to the backing storage so can support anything that OFS
 supports including local filesytem, S3, Google Storage etc.
 
+.. _OFS: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ofs/
+
 In your config you need something like::
 
    ckan.plugins = storage
@@ -29,13 +31,33 @@
 Metadata API
 ============
 
+The API is located at::
+
      /api/storage/metadata/{label}
 
+It supports the following methods:
+
   * GET will return the metadata
   * POST will add/update metadata
   * PUT will replace metadata
 
-Metadata is a json dict like:
+Metadata is a json dict of key values which for POST and PUT should be send in body of request.
+
+A standard response looks like::
+
+    {
+      "_bucket": "ckannet-storage",
+      _content_length: 1074
+      _format: "text/plain"
+      _label: "/file/8630a664-0ae4-485f-99c2-126dae95653a"
+      _last_modified: "Fri, 29 Apr 2011 19:27:31 GMT"
+      _location: "some-location"
+      _owner: null
+      uploaded-by: "bff737ef-b84c-4519-914c-b4285144d8e6"
+    }
+
+Note that values with '_' are standard OFS metadata and are mostly read-only -- _format i.e. content-type can be set).
+
 
 Auth API
 ========
@@ -43,8 +65,12 @@
 Get credentials for doing operations on storage directly.
 
 
-/api/storage/auth/request/{label}
----------------------------------
+Request Authentication
+----------------------
+
+The API is at::
+
+    /api/storage/auth/request/{label}
 
 Provide authentication information for a request so a client can
 interact with backend storage directly::
@@ -66,8 +92,12 @@
     headers dictionary containing an Authorization field which is good for
     15m.
 
-/api/storage/auth/form/{label}
-------------------------------
+Form Authentication
+-------------------
+
+The API is located at::
+
+    /api/storage/auth/form/{label}
 
 Provide fields for a form upload to storage including authentication::

Repository URL: https://bitbucket.org/okfn/ckanext-storage/

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