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

Tue Apr 9 23:54:42 UTC 2013

Hi Heinrich,

The problem with your request is that "object" should be the Package's id
(i.e. f2289f02-4ae7-4600-8adc-3ccd450b9498), not its name. Also, I'm not
sure if capacity = 3 means something. Looked through the code but couldn't
find anything. The capacity values I found were public and private, but I
might be wrong.

Cheers,
Vítor Baptista.

2013/4/8 Heinrich Widmann <widmann at dkrz.de>

> 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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