[ckan-dev] Search API does not return resource_type

Tue Jul 31 10:00:41 UTC 2012

Hey all,

first of all, thanks for providing such a nice piece of software.

Our use case is as follows:

We preview for each dataset the resources, but we want to exclude all 
documentation. For documentations, we use the resource_type field and 
set it explicitly to documentation.

We are using CKAN 1.5.1 with a call to api/2/search/ to find relevant 
packages with all_fields=1 (e.g. 
<ckan-instance>/api/2/search/dataset?q=test&all_fields=1). We realised 
that the returned JSON does not contain the resource_type of each 
resource. Therefore, we are not able to distinguish between files and 
documentation.
Is there any way to retrieve this information without making an API call 
for each resource?

Are there any plans to integrate resource_type like "res_url" or 
"res_format"? We realised that in the latest CKAN version you added a 
data_dict, which contains the relevant information. Should we use this 
field or does a more elegant way exist?

Thanks,

Philipp