[ckan-dev] How to access an array in extra-fields ?

Tue May 3 10:43:49 UTC 2011

On 3 May 2011 11:36, Pascal Christoph <christoph at hbz-nrw.de> wrote:

> David,
>
> > It's great you're using our API and pushing us on it! Allow me to
> > summarise your issues (correct if necessary) and where we're at with
> > them.
>
> It's great you have this fine API!
> thanx for your effort - this' all working now :)
>

Great to hear it,

David

> Am 02.05.2011 22:44 schrieb David Read:
> > Storing lists, tuples & dicts in extra fields is something we want to
> > support for harvesting, but I wasn't aware this was a feature
> > wanted/needed be front end users. I guess you could store the list
> > quoted, so it is stored as a JSON string, rather than something that
> > acts like a collection and hence confuses the form & search, but would
> > that make life harder for you Pascal?
>
> why, no, good idea, that is feasible for us - just tested this, it works:
>
> wget
> '
> http://ckan.net/api/1/search/package?filter_by_openness=1&publishingInstitution=http*//lobid.org/organisation/DE-605*
> '
>
> Being myself a programmer I eventually *had to* think about tuples
> because searching in tuples would be easier for solr. But as far as the
> machines are not complaining I won't either ;)
>
> > BTW I failed to mention you can POST parameters. These examples (now)
> > all give the same response:
> >
> > curl 'http://ckan.net/api/1/search/package?q=lobid&filter_by_openness=1'
> > curl 'http://ckan.net/api/1/search/package' -d
> 'q=lobid&filter_by_openness=1'
> > curl 'http://ckan.net/api/1/search/package' -d '{"q": "lobid",
> > "filter_by_openness": "1"}'
>
> these may be more elegant when it comes to more complexity, thanks.
>
> oo
>
> > On 29 April 2011 09:36, David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 4:57 PM, William Waites <ww at styx.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> * [2011-04-28 16:44:09 +0100] David Raznick <kindly at gmail.com> écrit:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> ] It should be getting a json dumps only if its *not* a plain string.
>  It
> >>> is
> >>> ] stored as a json but on return to the wui it gets converted to the
> >>> repred
> >>> ] version.
> >>>
> >>> If I'm not mistaken the OP is using the API and gets, inter alia,
> >>>
> >>>    "extras": {"publishingInstitution":
> >>>    "[u'http://lobid.org/organisation/DE-605',
> >>>
> >>> Note the u'...' smoking gun...
> >>>
> >> The u' ' has been fixed but it is tangential to the OP issue.
> >>
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