[ckan-dev] Example for API usage (e.g. member_create)

[Heinrich Widmann]

Hello,
sorry for the newbie question but I'm still struggling with the basic 
usage of CKAN APIs.

We managed to add and update data sets within our CKAN instance.
Now I want to add datasets to groups by using member_create.
My implemention in python returned no error, but the data set is not 
added to the wanted group of CKAN.
So I tried to test it with curl from command line and submit something 
like :

 >curl <myckan>/api/3/action/member_create -d '{"object":"test3", 
"id":"enes", "object_type":"package", "capacity": "3"}' -H 
"Authorization: <api_key>"

to add (existing) dataset test3 to the group 'ENES' (created the group 
with upper case letters, but I thing all CKAN objects are named lower 
case ?).
( Irecognized, that "capacity" must be set, but what is the appropriate 
value ?)

The response is ... "success": true ..., but if I check no data set is 
added to group CKAN.

What's going wrong ?
Or more general : How can I test (and learn to use) APIs and get more 
verbose error messages to see what's going on.

Best,
Heinrich

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